Books available for review in Metapsychology Online
Christian Perring
Metapsychology Online Review. Either Ph.D. or ABD in
Philosophy, Psychology, or other behavioral sciences is
preferable. Ideally reviews should draw connections between
the subject of the book and issues in mental health,
psychopathology, normality or emotions.
Guidelines at
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Deadline: Jan 15, 2004
If interested, please e-mail me at
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* your name
* e-mail address
* mailing address (even if you have given it previously)
* list of books you are interested in (the more you list,
the more likely you can get a book to review)
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(especially for books that many people are likely to want
to review)
* details of your ability to write for a general audience
Please note that due to new regulations on sending
international mail, it is not feasible for us to send books
over 1 lb in weight to reviewers outside the US.
Please do NOT send me any large attachments with CVs etc --
my mailbox will soon reach its size limit.
Narrative Prosthesis
Disabilty and the Dependencies of Discourse
David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder
University of Michigan Press 2000 210 pages
How Can I Be Trusted?
A Virtue Theory of Trustworthyness
Nancy Nyquist Potter
Rowman & Littlefield 2002 192 pages
Becoming John Dewey
Dilemmas of a Philosopher and naturalist
Thomas Dalton
University of Indiana Press 2002 377 pages
Science, Seeds and Cyborgs
Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life
Finn Bowring
Verso 2003 339 pages
The Deadly Truth
A History of Disease in America
Gerald Grob
Belknap Harvard 2002 349 pages
Evolution, Gender, and Rape
Cheryl Brown Travis (ed)
MIT Press 2003 454 pages
The Subject of Care
Feminist Perspectives on Dependency
Eva Feder Kittay & Ellen K Feder
Rowman & Littlefield 2002 382 pages
Decoding the Ethics Code
A Practical Guide for Psychologists
Celia Fisher
Sage Publications 2003 280 pages
John Searle's Ideas About Social Reality
Extensions, Criticisms and Reconstructions
David Koepsell & Laurence Moss (eds)
Blackwell publishing 2003 315 pages
High Culture
Reflections on Addiction and Modernity
Anna Alexander and Mark S Roberts
SUNY Press 2003 381 pages
Psychology and The Question of Agency
Jack Martin et al
SUNY Press 2003 186 pages
Children, Family and the State
David William Archard
Ashgate Press 2003 182 pages
Ethical Issues in the New Genetics
B Almond and M Parker (eds)
Ashgate Press 2003 182 pages
Bounded Rationality
The Adaptive Toolbox
Gerd Gigerenzer (editor)
MIT Press 2001 377 pages
Privileged Access
Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge
Brie Gertler (ed)
Ashgate Press 2003 270 pages
Caring for the Dying
Critical Issues at the Edge of Life
Robert Baird and Stuart Rosenbaum (eds)
Prometheus Books 2003 316 pages
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New reviews are listed at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=new_reviews
Philosophy reviews are at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=philosophy
Ethics reviews are at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=ethics
We have published the following reviews of possible
interest in the last month
Imagining Numbers
(particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
by Barry Mazur
Review by Joseph W. Ulatowski on Aug 19th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1846
Melancholia and Moralism
Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics
by Douglas Crimp
Review by Nancy Nyquist Potter, Ph.D. on Aug 19th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1847
Rethinking the DSM
A Psychological Perspective
by Larry E. Beutler and Mary L. Malik (editors)
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Aug 19th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1848
Women, Body, Illness
Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women With
Chronic Illness
by Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck
Review by Susanne C. Moser, Ph.D. on Aug 20th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1850
Women's Mental Health
A Comprehensive Textbook
by Susan G. Kornstein and Anita H. Clayton (editors)
Review by Peter B. Raabe Ph.D. on Aug 20th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1851
The Structure of Thinking
A Process-Oriented Account of Mind
by Laura E. Weed
Review by Ray Rennard, Ph.D. on Aug 22nd 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1856
Life of the Mind
An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism
by Gregory McCulloch
Review by Daniel Callcut, Ph.D. on Aug 22nd 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1857
Erotic Morality
The Role of Touch in Moral Agency
by Linda Holler
Review by Brent Dean Robbins, Ph.D. on Aug 25th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1859
Understanding Evil
An Interdisciplinary Approach
by Margaret Breen
Review by Lloyd A. Wells, Ph.D., M.D. on Aug 25th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1860
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical
Ethics
From Paternalism to Autonomy?
by Andreas-Holger Maehle and Johanna Geyer Kordesch
(editors)
Review by James Hitt on Aug 26th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1861
Defining Psychopathology in the 21st Century
DSM-V and Beyond
by John E. Helzer and James J. Hudziak (editors)
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Aug 26th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1862
A History of the Mind
Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness
by Nicholas Humphrey
Review by Keith S. Harris, Ph.D. on Aug 26th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1863
Real Science
What It Is and What It Means
by John M. Ziman
Review by Andrew Aberdein, Ph.D. on Aug 27th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1864
Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics
by Donna Dickenson
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D. on Aug 27th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1865
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical
Psychiatry
Fourth Edition
by Robert Hales and Stuart Yudofsky (editors)
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Aug 27th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1866
The Postnational Self
Belonging and Identity
by Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort (editors)
Review by Ludger Jansen, Dr. phil on Aug 28th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1867
Immortal Remains
The Evidence for Life After Death
by Stephen E. Braude
Review by Ken Bryson, Ph.D. on Aug 28th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1868
Ways of Knowing
A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
by John V. Pickstone
Review by Giuseppina Ronzitti, Ph.D. on Sep 2nd 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1871
Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory
Third Edition
by Thomas J. Scheff
Review by Duncan Double on Sep 2nd 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1872
Departing from Deviance
A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in
America
by Henry L. Minton
Review by Glenda M. Russell, Ph.D. on Sep 3rd 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1875
Making Babies, Making Families
What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies,
Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents' Rights
by Mary L. Shanley
Review by Paul Roazen, Ph.D. on Sep 4th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1877
Sartre
by Neil Levy
Review by Ron Jump on Sep 5th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1879
Mental Health
A Philosophical Analysis
by Per-Anders Tengland
Review by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic on Sep 8th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1882
Playing God?
Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public
Bioethical Debate
by John H. Evans
Review by Juho Ritola, Lic. Soc. Sc. on Sep 8th 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=1883
Thanks,
Christian Perring
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