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Den mänskliga mångfalden - diagnosen som urvalsinstrument

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Author

  • Eva Kärfve

Editor

  • Hallerstedt Gunilla

Summary, in English

This chapter attends the history of the nature/nurture debate and asserts the constancy of biological explanations of human nature within psychiatry up to this day. It elucidates the connection between social darwinism and contemporary individualism, claiming the degeneration theory of the 19th century to be an intermediate link. Finally, it scrutinizes not only the origin of but also the consequences of the neuropsychiatric diagnostic culture, which is dominant at present.

Department/s

Publishing year

2006

Language

Swedish

Pages

59-71

Publication/Series

Diagnosens makt

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Daidalos

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • nature/nurture
  • individualism
  • deviance
  • sociologi
  • sociology
  • diagnostic culture
  • neuropsychiatry

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 91-7173-238-1