The study of public health aims to protect and promote the wellbeing of the public as well as
reduce health inequalities. Public health ethics asks how far we should go to achieve these …

Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions
are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences. In The Measure of …

The theoretical implications of equating the melancholic states of past eras with today's
depression are explored. These include the presuppositions of the descriptive psychiatry so …

In this article, building on and extending Jaspers' concept of the “patient's attitude toward his
illness” we draw attention to the active role that the person, as a self-interpreting agent …

In this article we argue the case for a proposal: that psychiatry should recognise, embrace
and take seriously the role of values, alongside facts, in diagnosis. We present a three-step …

This “open letter” to Christopher Boorse is a response to his influential naturalist (value-
excluding) analysis of disease from the perspective of linguistic-analytic value theory. The …

Whether one is believed to have a mental disorder or not has consequences: it can give
access to special and/or medical treatment as well as other social, economic, and emotional …

The recovery model has been put forward as a rival to the biomedical model in mental
healthcare. It has also been invoked in debate about public policy for individual and …

What is defiance, and when does defiant behaviour impede one's ability to aim at
flourishing? People who are defiant can present perplexing challenges etiologically …

Values-based practice is a new skills-based approach to working with complex and
conflicting values in health care that is proving to be a fast growing force at the practical …