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Professor Rachel Cooper

Senior Lecturer

  1. Journal article
  2. Published

    Socratic questioning in alien landscapes?

    Cooper, R. V., 11/2017, In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 34, 5, p. 724-729 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    A modest proposal: commentary on “A role for philosophers, sociologists and bioethicists in revising the DSM”

    Cooper, R., 09/2017, In: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. 24, 3, p. 207-209 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Where’s the problem? considering Laing and Esterson’s account of schizophrenia, social models of disability, and extended mental disorder

    Cooper, R. V., 08/2017, In: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 38, 4, p. 295-305 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

    Cooper, R. V., 2017, In: Knowledge Organization. 44, 8, p. 668-676 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    First do no harm? what role should considerations of potential harm play in revising the D.S.M.?

    Cooper, R., 06/2016, In: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology. 23, 2, p. 103-113 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Re-evaluating the DSM-I

    Cooper, R. & Blashfield, R., 02/2016, In: Psychological Medicine. 46, 3, p. 449-456 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    How might I have been?

    Cooper, R., 10/2015, In: Metaphilosophy. 46, 4-5, p. 495-514 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Why is the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders so hard to revise? path-dependence and “lock-in” in classification

    Cooper, R., 06/2015, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 51, p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Shifting boundaries between the normal and the pathological: the case of mild intellectual disability

    Cooper, R., 06/2014, In: History of Psychiatry. 25, 2, p. 171-186 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    On deciding to have a lobotomy: either lobotomies were justified or decisions under risk should not always seek to maximise expected utility

    Cooper, R., 02/2014, In: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 17, 1, p. 143-154 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Avoiding false positives: zones of rarity, the threshold problem, and the DSM clinical significance criterion.

    Cooper, R., 11/2013, In: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 58, 11, p. 606-611 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Psychiatric classification and subjective experience

    Cooper, R., 04/2012, In: Emotion Review. 4, 2, p. 197-202 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Some classifications will be natural: forum on philosophy of classification

    Cooper, R., 2011, In: Knowledge Organization. 38, 5, p. 398-404 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  15. Published

    Illness or moral failing?

    Cooper, R., 2011, In: The Philosophers' Magazine. 55, p. 43-47 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  16. Published

    Are culture-bound syndromes as real as universally-occurring disorders?

    Cooper, R., 12/2010, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 41, 4, p. 325-332 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Aristotelian accounts of disease: what are they good for?

    Cooper, R., 2007, In: Philosophical Papers. 36, 3, p. 427-442 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Can it be a good thing to be deaf?

    Cooper, R., 2007, In: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 32, 6, p. 563-583 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Thought experiments

    Cooper, R. V., 04/2005, In: Metaphilosophy. 36, 3, p. 328-347 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Why Hacking is wrong about human kinds.

    Cooper, R. V., 03/2004, In: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 55, 1, p. 73-85 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Can sociologists understand other forms of life?

    Cooper, R., 2004, In: Perspectives on Science. 12, 1, p. 29-54 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    What is wrong with the DSM?

    Cooper, R. V., 2004, In: History of Psychiatry. 15, 1, p. 5-25 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Disease.

    Cooper, R. V., 1/07/2002, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 33, 2, p. 263-282 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Comment/debate
  25. Published

    Commentary on Jonathan Raskin’s ‘What might an alternative to the DSM suitable for psychotherapists look like?’

    Cooper, R. V., 1/05/2019, In: Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 59, 3, p. 376-384 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  26. Published

    Doing without A Metaphysics of Psychopathology

    Cooper, R. V., 2017, In: Bulletin of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry. 24, p. 10-12 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debate

  27. Book/Film/Article review
  28. Published

    Review of A Metaphysics of Psychopathology. By P.Zachar

    Cooper, R. V., 10/2014, In: Psychological Medicine. 44, 14, p. 3135-3135 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article review

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