Posted by Sad Sara on November 5, 2004, at 10:58:46
In reply to Re: Psychiatry should be replaced with neurology, posted by Squiggles on November 4, 2004, at 7:13:43
Oh, and to be really looking at details, neurology is a subject in psychology too, not only medicine. Psychologists are taking part in all kinds of brainscanning and neurological diagnosing (as for example alzheimers, eplilepsy, closed brain injury and the effect of brain injury).
Some part of psychology is not as much a "pseudo science" as some wants it to be :-)
But as I said, you are totally, right, medicine (not only in the sense of medication, but medical science in general) need a lot bigger place in mental disease. But to give mental disease just as important place as physical disease is also a matter of the people in a societys opinions... one of the effects of democracy is that it is the masses that get to choose the order. If the masses agree that mental disease is shameful and/or not a part of physical disease, that will be reflected in the research, rules and standads in that society.
There is no such thing as a perfect social system, democracy has it's flaws too- just as every other system invented. But maybe future can invent a perfect system that is fair for everyone? Who knows....
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