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Rashed, Mohammed Abouelleil
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dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-11T07:12:51Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2013 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Psychiatrists encounter persons from diverse cultures who profess
experiences (e.g., communicating with spirits) that evoke intuitions
of abnormality. This view might not be shared with the person or
her/his cultural peers, raising questions concerning the justification
of such intuitions. This article explores three positions relevant to
the process of justification. The relativist position transfers powers
of judgment to the subject’s peers yet neglects individual values and
operates with a discredited holistic view of culture. The clinical- ethnographic position remedies this by suspending judgment subject
to understanding the individual in a sociocultural context yet finds
objections with the universalist-scientific position: objective standards
exist and could justify intuitions of abnormality cross-culturally.
This article argues that the claim to objectivity is value-laden, reflecting
instead a brand of normality and relationship to reality further
upheld through epistemological utility and valued technological
progress. In conclusion, it is suggested that the clinical-ethnographic
position takes personal values and context seriously, both of which
are crucial for responsible clinical practice. |
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dc.description.embargo |
2015-02-28 |
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dc.description.librarian |
hb2013 |
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dc.description.librarian |
ay2013 |
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dc.description.uri |
http://www.jmp.oxfordjournals.org/ |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Rashed, MA 2013, 'Psychiatric judgments across cultural contexts : relativist, clinical-ethnographic, and universalist-scientific perspectives', Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 128-148. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0360-5310 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1744-5019 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1093/jmp/jht003 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32018 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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dc.rights |
© The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Inc. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 2, 2013, doi : 10.1093/jmp/jht003 |
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dc.subject |
Cultural relativity |
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dc.subject |
Normality |
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dc.subject |
Scientific epistemology |
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dc.subject |
Self |
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dc.subject |
Technology |
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dc.subject |
Worldview |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Mental illness -- Diagnosis |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Cultural awareness |
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dc.title |
Psychiatric judgments across cultural contexts : relativist, clinical-ethnographic, and universalist-scientific perspectives |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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