Mental Disorder and the Indirect Construction of Social Facts

In this paper, I argue for two claims, (i) that on a common conception of the second order property of being a mental disorder, some facts about mental disorders are the result of social constructions, and (ii) that the way facts about mental disorders are constructed differs from the received view...

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Main Author: van Riel Raphael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Vienna 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of Social Ontology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2016-0008