Psychopathic disorder: a category mistake?
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Although the concept of psychopathy retains its currency in British psychiatry, apparently being meaningful as well as useful to practitioners (1), it is often taken to refer to a purely legal category with social control functions rather than a medical diagnosis with treatment implications. I wish, in this brief article, to suggest that it is essentially, and most usefully, an ethical category which stands outside the diagnostic framework of present-day psychiatry. (+info)
When there is no doctor: reasons for the disappearance of primary care physicians in the US during the early 21st century.
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