New Issue of Poiesis & Praxis is Now Available

February 17, 2009

Poiesis & Praxis (Volume 6, Numbers 1-2, March 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “The impact of current developments in the neurosciences on the concept of psychiatric diseases” by Felix Thiele and Barbara Hawellek, 1-2.
• “The problem of being a paradigm: the emergence of neural stem cells as example for “Kuhnian” revolution in biology or misconception of the scientific community?” by Jens Benninghoff, Hans-Jürgen Möller, Harald Hampel and Angelo Luigi Vescovi, 3-11.
• “Psychiatry in the age of neuroscience: the impact on clinical practice and lives of patients” byElleke Landeweer, Tineke Abma, Jolijn Santegoeds and Guy Widdershoven, 43-55.
• “The concept of the gene in psychiatric genetics and its consequences for the concept of mental illness” by Vanessa Lux, 65-77.
• “The risk that neurogenetic approaches may inflate the psychiatric concept of disease and how to cope with it” by Stephan Schleim, 79-91.
• “Critical issues on informed consent in Africa” by Cletus T. Andoh, 109-123.