I forgot to mention the role of utilitarian moral philosophy in economics,
but perhaps amnesia is due to its being too obvious.
Nesta wrote:
> Wynship, would you not think that Foucault had had some effect upon
> psychiatry? He tends not to take on the 'hard' sciences: I vaguely
> remember reading a discussion of that phenomenon in a biography -
> perhaps a notion that that was Canguilhem's patch??
I don't know who Canguilhem is, but yes, as I wrote in another posting, M.F.
does ask if an account of social processes in a natural science would not
set the standard of possible explanations impossibly high. I can only hope
that the past 14 years of science studies would have changed his mind about
that. It has mine, anyway.
As for an impact on psychiatry, I did hear from an unreliable source that he
should be held partially responsible for the widespread discorging of all
but the most violent mentally ill people from insane asylums onto, here in
the U.S., the streets, where they typically fare poorly and die young. On
the other hand, a look through the DSMV-IV or recent literature which now
essentializes brain physiochemistry as the origin of all mental illness
leads me to think that he's had no impact at all, or one which has since
been reversed.
With unbelievable stiffness,
Wynship
but perhaps amnesia is due to its being too obvious.
Nesta wrote:
> Wynship, would you not think that Foucault had had some effect upon
> psychiatry? He tends not to take on the 'hard' sciences: I vaguely
> remember reading a discussion of that phenomenon in a biography -
> perhaps a notion that that was Canguilhem's patch??
I don't know who Canguilhem is, but yes, as I wrote in another posting, M.F.
does ask if an account of social processes in a natural science would not
set the standard of possible explanations impossibly high. I can only hope
that the past 14 years of science studies would have changed his mind about
that. It has mine, anyway.
As for an impact on psychiatry, I did hear from an unreliable source that he
should be held partially responsible for the widespread discorging of all
but the most violent mentally ill people from insane asylums onto, here in
the U.S., the streets, where they typically fare poorly and die young. On
the other hand, a look through the DSMV-IV or recent literature which now
essentializes brain physiochemistry as the origin of all mental illness
leads me to think that he's had no impact at all, or one which has since
been reversed.
With unbelievable stiffness,
Wynship