Politics, Profit, and Psychiatric Diagnosis
A Case Study of Tobacco Use Disorder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11034752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Hirshbein (0000-0002-5771-0295, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Laura D Hirshbein (Laura D. Hirshbein is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2076-2084 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2014.302125 |
| PMID | 25211741 |
| PMCID | PMC4202992 |
| OpenAlex | W2035866395 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
The idea of tobacco or nicotine dependence as a specific psychiatric diagnosis appeared in 1980 and has evolved through successive editions of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Not surprisingly, the tobacco industry attempted to challenge this diagnosis through behind-the-scenes influence. But another entity put corporate muscle into supporting the diagnosis—the pharmaceutical industry. Psychiatry’s ongoing professional challenges have left it vulnerable to multiple professional, social, and commercial forces. The example of tobacco use disorder illustrates that mental health concepts used to develop public health goals and policy need to be critically assessed. I review the conflicting commercial, professional, and political aims that helped to construct psychiatric diagnoses relating to smoking. This history suggests that a diagnosis regarding tobacco has as much to do with social and cultural circumstances as it does with science
Association (psychology) · Mental health · Nicotine · Political science · Politics · Psychiatric diagnosis · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Public health · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) · Tobacco industry · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Psychology · Smoking Behavior and Cessation
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |