The reorganization of psychiatric knowledge at the turn of the twentieth century
derived from Emil Kraepelin’s clinical classification of psychoses.
Surprisingly, within just few years, Kraepelin’s simple dichotomy between
dementia praecox (schizophrenias) and manic-depressive psychosis (bipolar
disorders) succeeded in giving psychiatry a new framework that is still used
until the present day. Une... hiện toàn bộ
Medical classification systems aim to provide a manageable taxonomy for sorting
diagnoses into their proper classes. The question, this paper wants to
critically examine, is how to correctly systematise diseases within
classification systems that are applied in a variety of different settings. ICD
and DSM, the two major classification systems in medicine and psychiatry, will
be the main subjects o... hiện toàn bộ
Is there anything special about the ethical problems of intracerebral stem-cell
transplantation and other forms of cell or tissue transplantation in the brain
that provides neuroethics with a distinctive normative profile, setting it apart
from other branches of medical ethics? This is examined with reference to some
of the ethical problems associated with interventions in the brain such as
potent... hiện toàn bộ