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edited by Michael G. Gelder, Juan J. Lopez-Ibor, Jr, MD, and Nancy C. Andreason, MD, PhD, 2938 pp, $249, ISBN 0-19-262970-0, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2000.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2002;59:476-477.

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Creating a textbook of general psychiatry at the beginning of the 21st century requires many tough choices. First, identifying the intended audience—medical students, residents, members of the profession, or others. Second, is the book to be written by one person or a small group with a single voice and "philosophy," or by many different experts, sacrificing coherence and a consistent perspective for subspecialty excellence? Third, what are the appropriate boundaries of contemporary psychiatry? There may be agreement at the core, but should a psychiatry text include molecular genetics, neuroimaging, basic statistics, health economics, hospital administration? Related to this, many areas of psychiatry are defined and described in accordance with conventions that vary from country to country and region to region. Should the text use DSM-IV, ICD-10, both, or neither? Is the discussion of treatment by a shaman to be classified as a standard therapy or a cultural variant? . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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