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UNINA9910962303203321 |
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Matthews Eric <1936-> |
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Body-subjects and disordered minds / / Eric Matthews |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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[1st ed.] |
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International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry |
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Psychiatry - Philosophy |
Mental illness - Physiological aspects |
Mental illness - Philosophy |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introducing the problem -- 2 Illness and disease -- 3 'Minds' and 'bodies' -- 4 Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty -- 5 The body-subject and mental disorder -- 6 Mental disorder and choice -- 7 Mental disorder and legal responsibility -- 8 Treatment without consent -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. |
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How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine. |
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UNINA9910967190603321 |
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America and Iraq : policy-making, intervention and regional politics / / edited by David Ryan and Patrick Kiely |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
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1-134-03672-8 |
1-281-93229-9 |
9786611932299 |
0-203-88634-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Contemporary security studies |
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KielyPatrick |
RyanDavid <1965-> |
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 |
Iraq Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations Iraq |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-259) and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Eisenhower and regime change in Iraq: The United States and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958; 2 Through distorted lenses: Iraq and balance of power politics 1969-1979; 3 From the 'tilt' to the unintended 'transformation': The United States and Iraq, 1975-1992; 4 Lost in the desert: Lawrence and the theory and practice of counterinsurgency; 5 Grand ambitions and far-reaching failures: The United States in Iraq; 6 The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror: US Central Command and the war in Iraq |
7 What would Jesus do?: Evangelicals, the Iraq War, and the struggle for position8 Against everyone and no-one: The failure of the unipolar in Iraq and beyond; 9 George W. Bush, American exceptionalism and the Iraq War; 10 The Middle East and the Persian Gulf as the gateway to imperial crisis: The Bush administration in Iraq; 11 The Imperial Presidency Redux: Presidential power and the war in Iraq; 12 Securing the state: The US and post-war Iraqi border security dynamics; Bibliography; Index |
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This edited volume provides an overview on US involvement in Iraq from the 1958 Iraqi coup to the present-day, offering a deeper context to the current conflict. Using a range of innovative methods to interrogate US foreign policy, ideology and culture, the book provides a broad set of reflections on past, present and future implications of US-Iraqi relations, and especially the strategic implications for US policy-making. In doing so, it examines several key aspects of relationship such as: the 1958 Iraqi Revolution; the impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; the impact of the |
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