The Selling of Dsm

by Kirk,Stuart A.

• ISBN13: 9780202304311
• ISBN10: 0202304310
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351474337
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-12-31
• Publisher: Routledge
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Psychitric Diagnosis and the New Bible	1	(16)
A New Diagnostic Manual	4	(8)
Overview	12	(5)
The Transformation of Psychiatric Troubles	17	(30)
Transformation of the Problem	23	(14)
The Kappa Contortion	37	(10)
The Social Control of Error	47	(30)
The Control of Discretion	49	(7)
Interpreting the Past	56	(7)
The Second Wave: Announcing Initial Success	63	(14)
Making a Manual	77	(44)
DSM and Homosexuality: A Cautionary Tale	81	(9)
Architect, Critic, and Defender of DSM	90	(7)
The Palace Revolt and Invisible Colleges	97	(6)
Ratifying DSM-III	103	(8)
The Medical Model under Siege	111	(5)
The Final Product: DSM-III	116	(5)
A Careful Look at the Field Trials	121	(12)
Reliability and the Remarkable Achivement	133	(28)
Claiming Success with the DSM-III Field Trials	134	(2)
The Unmaking of the Reliability Problem	136	(5)
Interpreting the Field Trials	141	(10)
Additional Reliability Studies	151	(5)
Claiming Success	156	(5)
The Art of Claim-Making	161	(38)
Claim-Making and the Scientific Article	162	(3)
The First Word	165	(6)
The Slippery Standard of ``Good''	171	(7)
The Art of Managing Science	178	(21)
Securing Diagnostic Turf	199	(20)
The Social Context of Diagnostic Error	219	(30)
Diagnosis as Technical Retionality	220	(4)
Meanings of Diagnostic Error	224	(1)
Uncertainty and Mental Health Practice	225	(3)
Diagnosis as Retionalization of Action	228	(10)
Social Context of Deliberate Misdiagnosis	238	(6)
Diagnostic Conclusions	244	(5)
References	249	(15)
Index	264