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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452164003321

Autore

Paris Joel <1940-, >

Titolo

The bipolar spectrum : diagnosis or fad? / / Joel Paris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-32533-6

0-203-12106-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Disciplina

616.895

Soggetti

Affective disorders - Diagnosis

Depression, Mental - Diagnosis

Manic-depressive illness - Diagnosis

Diagnostic errors

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Bipolar Spectrum : Diagnosis or Fad?; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I : Concepts; 1. The Bipolar Diagnosis; 2. "Diagnostic Creep" in the Bipolar Spectrum; 3. Affective Instability; Part II : Disorders; 4. Differential Diagnosis of Unstable Mood; 5. Bipolarity and Personality Disorders; 6. Bipolarity and Childhood Behavioral Disorders; Part III : Implications; 7. How Psychiatric Fads Develop; 8. The Impact of Overdiagnosis; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1970s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. In the wake of the drug's success, both in that case and countless others, why this book? As Dr. Paris' historical examination of bipolar diagnosis and critique of the spectrum demonstrates, medicine has often been prone to fads that are assumed correct until proven wrong by science. This book opens discussion about the overdiagnosis of bipolar disorder and the negative impact of this development on clinical care. Dr. Paris explores why patients are being classified as bi



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453309903321

Titolo

Access to environmental justice [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative study / / edited by Andrew Harding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c2007

ISBN

1-281-92635-3

9786611926359

90-474-2045-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Collana

London-leiden series on law, administration and development ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

HardingAndrew <1950->

Disciplina

344.04/6

Soggetti

Environmental law

Environmental justice

Environmental policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Access to environmental justice : some introductory perspectives / Andrew Harding -- Access to environmental justice in Ghana (Accra) / James S. Read -- Access to environmental justice in India's Garden City (Bangalore) / Amanda Perry-Kessaris -- Access to environmental justice in Indonesia / Adriaan Bedner -- Access to environmental justice in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) / Andrew Harding and Azmi Sharom -- Access to Environmental justice in a politically unstable environment : a case study of Nepal / Surya Subedi -- Access to environmental justice : Karachi's urban poor and the law / Martin Lau --Towards a greener China? : accessing environmental justice in the People's Republic of China / Michael Palmer -- Access to environmental justice in the South West Pacific / Nicola Pain -- Access to environmental justice and public participation in Thailand / Thawilwadee Bureekul -- Access to environmental justice in United Kingdom law /  Jean-Jacques Paradissis and Michael Purdue -- Access to environmental justice in the United States : embracing environmental and social concerns to achieve environmental justice / J. Mijin Cha.

Sommario/riassunto

Although it is commonly asserted that enhanced citizen participation



results in better environmental policy and improved enforcement of environmental standards, this hypothesis has rarely been subject to testing on a comparative basis. The contributors to this book set out to study the extent to which citizens can and do exert influence over their urban environments through the legal (and extra-legal) 'gateways' in eleven countries spanning several continents as well as different climates, levels and type of economic development, and national legal and constitutional systems, as well as exhibiting a different set of environmental problems. One interviewee questioned about access to environmental justice, dryly remarked that in his city there was no environment, no justice and no access to either. Yet this view, as will be seen, requires to be nuanced. While few people will be surprised by the finding that legal gateways to environmental justice are largely ineffective, the reasons for this are revealing; but also the richness of detail and the comparisons between the different countries, and also the positive aspects which surfaced in several instances, were indeed both encouraging and sometimes surprising. This book presents the first comparative survey of access to environmental justice, and will be of considerable use to lawyers, policy-makers, activists and scholars who are concerned with the environmental issues which so profoundly affect and afflict our habitat and conditions of social justice throughout the world.