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The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health (2019)

Rüppel, Jonas (Author)
Voigt, Torsten H. (Author)

Science, Technology and Human Values
Volume: 44
Issue: 4
Pages: 567-580

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243919853619

DOI: 10.1177/0162243919853619

Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health
Language: English

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Technoscience; science and technology studies Psychiatry Biotechnology Psychology Medicine and ethics Mental health and illness 20th century 21st century

This guest editorial opens with a brief overview of the transformations of medicine and mental health that can be observed since the second half of the twentieth century. New genetics and biotechnologies hold out the promise of overcoming presumed limitations in the field of mental health care, that is, the fact that diagnostic procedures in psychiatry and clinical psychology still largely rely on the narratives of patients and questionnaires, supposedly subjective assessments by physicians and psychologists. It is envisioned that innovative genetic and proteomic tools, (neuro)imaging technologies, and objective laboratory tests for blood biomarkers will enable better diagnosis and treatment of mental diseases. We argue that emerging biotechnologies do not revolutionize mental health, despite their promise to do so. Instead, we observe a pluralization of research and treatment approaches in the domain of mental health. The second part of this editorial discusses the contributions to this special issue on emerging biotechnologies and mental health and outlines how they address some of the gaps in social studies of psychiatry and mental health in the twenty-first century.

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