Abstract
The history of psychiatric knowledge has been one of competition between two dominant etiological paradigms: one favoring the social causation of mental illness and the other favoring biological causes. Psychiatry is currently dominated by biological models of etiology that re-emerged in the United States during the 1970s.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness |
| Subtitle of host publication | an A-to-Z Guide |
| Editors | Andrew Scull |
| Place of Publication | California |
| Publisher | SAGE |
| Pages | 81-83 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781452255484 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- genetics
- mental illness defined
- psychiatric perspectives
- psychiatry
- neuroscience