Philosophical questions have little obvious relevance for most medical specialities. If you are faced with a patient suffering from a broken leg or the measles the concept of "normality" is so obvious both to you and to the patient that neither of you need to think about it at all. A quick gabble through the Hippocratic Oath as part of a single lecture on ethics is more than enough for most clinicians. Psychiatry, by contrast, is enmeshed in philosophical concepts. As soon as it broke free from theological ideas of an external force - "the devil" possessing the patient - psychiatry had to consider concepts like rationality, the relationship of the mind to the body, consciousness, and the emotions, as well as a variety of complex social and ethical problems. Starting with Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology, a major founding text in phenomenology, psychiatry has had an important influence on the development of philosophy. Judging by the increasing number of Kings College philosophy students trying to use the Institute of Psychiatry library this influence is increasing, to the extent that if you want to get your new book onto a philosophy undergraduate reading list you should call it something like The Handbook of Cognitive Neurophilosophy. There are now two very successful masters degree programmes on philosophy and mental health in the UK alone, a well-established core journal, Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, and an increasing range of new books, topped off now by this one.
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机译：哲学问题与大多数医学专业几乎没有明显的关联。如果您面对的是腿部骨折或麻疹患者，那么“正常”的概念对您和患者都非常明显，您根本不需要考虑。对于大多数临床医生而言，作为伦理学单个讲座的一部分，快速浏览希波克拉底誓言已经绰绰有余。相比之下，精神病学则陷入了哲学观念中。一旦摆脱了外在力量的“神魔”的神学观念，精神病学就不得不考虑诸如理性，思想与身体的关系，意识，情感以及各种各样的概念。复杂的社会和道德问题。从卡尔·贾斯珀斯的《一般精神病理学》（现象学的主要创始著作）开始，精神病学对哲学的发展产生了重要影响。从越来越多的试图使用精神病学研究所图书馆的国王学院哲学系学生判断，这种影响正在增加，以至于如果您想将新书纳入哲学系本科生阅读清单，则应将其称为“ The Handbook of认知神经哲学。现在仅在英国就有两个非常成功的哲学和心理健康硕士学位课程，一本成熟的核心期刊《哲学，精神病学与心理学》，以及越来越多的新书，而这本新书更是名列前茅。
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