Published February, 2008
By John McMillan, Tony Hope, Guy Widdershoven and Lieke van der Scheer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Psychiatry presents a unique array of difficult ethical questions. A major challenge is to approach psychiatry in a way that does justice to the real ethical issues. This book show how ethics can engage more closely with the reality of psychiatric practice and how empirical methodologies from the social sciences can help foster this link.

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Published February, 2008
By Armin Schnider
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Confabulations are memories of events and experiences that have never actually happened. Such false memories have fascinated scientists for over a century, and in recent years been the subject of much debate. This is the first book to provide an in-depth analysis of an extraordinary and controversial subject.

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Published February, 2008
By Derek Bolton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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With a new edition of the 'bibles' of psychiatric diagnosis - the ICD and DSM - under development, it is timely to take a step back and evaluate how we diagnose and define mental disorder. This new book by Derek Bolton tackles the problems involved in the definition and boundaries of mental disorder.

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Published February, 2008
By Patrick M McQuillan
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford American Handbooks in Medicine
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Published January, 2008
By Rolf G. Kuehni and Andreas Schwarz
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Color Ordered is a comprehensive, in-depth compendium of 165 color order systems, dating from antiquity to the present. It presents a history and categorisation of colour systems, describing each one using original figures and schematic drawings, and provides a broad review of the underlying theory.

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Published January, 2008
By Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social laboratory for the reform of these systems. This is the first book to comprehensively study these influential reforms in Latin America's pension and health care systems.

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Published January, 2008
By Ulf Ziemann, Eric Wassermann, Charles Epstein, Vincent Walsh, Tomaacutes Paus, Sarah Lisanby, Tomás Paus and Sarah H. Lisanby
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Library of Psychology
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Transcranial stimulation comprises an important set of techniques for investigating brain function, some of which are showing the promise of treating disease. This book provides the definitive review of the scientific and technical background required to understand transcranial stimulation, for neuroscientists, neurologists, and psychiatrists.

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Published January, 2008
By Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published January, 2008
By Stephen P. Hinshaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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In this book, mental health professionals and scientists, ranging from newly trained individuals to seasoned clinicians and researchers, tell their own and their families' stories of mental disorder, providing an unprecedented level of honesty and disclosure.

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Published January, 2008
By David Isenberg and Susan Manzi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: The Facts
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Lupus is a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks itself, culminating in disease which can affect multiple organs. This new edition of Lupus: The Facts reflects major developments in our understanding of the causes of lupus and helps patients understand lupus with a view to self-management.

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