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Professor Rachel Cooper

Senior Lecturer

  1. 2015
  2. Published

    Must disorders cause harm? the changing stance of the DSM

    Cooper, R. V., 2015, The DSM-5 in perspective: philosophical reflections on the psychiatric babel. Demazeux, S. & Singy, P. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer, p. 83-96 14 p. (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences; vol. 10).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  3. 2014
  4. Published

    Duhem-Quine thesis

    Cooper, R. & Blease, C., 12/2014, The encyclopedia of clinical psychology. Cautin, R. & Lilienfeld, S. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Published

    Diagnosing the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

    Cooper, R., 2014, London: Karnac Books. 79 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  9. 2013
  10. 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

  11. Published

    Disease mongering

    Cooper, R., 1/02/2013, The international encyclopaedia of ethics. La Follette, H. (ed.). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  12. Published

    Can it be a good thing to be deaf?

    Cooper, R., 2013, Deaf epistemologies: multiple perspectives on the acquisition of knowledge. Paul, P. V. & Moores, D. F. (eds.). Chicago, Ill. : Gallaudet University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  13. Published

    Introduction

    Carel, H. & Cooper, R., 2013, Health, illness & disease: philosophical essays. Carel, H. & Cooper, R. (eds.). Durham: Acumen, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  14. Published

    Natural kinds

    Cooper, R., 2013, The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry. Fulford, K., Davies, M., Graham, G., Sadler, J., Stanghellini, G. & Thornton, T. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  15. Published

    What’s special about mental health and disorder?

    Cooper, R., 2013, Arguing about human nature: contemporary debates. Downes, S. & Machery, E. (eds.). New York: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  16. 2012
  17. Published

    Complicated grief: philosophical perspectives

    Cooper, R., 07/2012, Complicated grief: scientific foundations for health care professionals. Stroebe, M., Schut, H. & van den Bout, J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 13-26 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  18. 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

  19. Published

    Being ill and getting better: recovery and accounts of disorder

    Cooper, R., 2012, The recovery of people with mental illness: philosophical and related perspectives . Rudnick, A. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 217-235 19 p. (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  20. Published

    Is psychiatric classification a good thing?

    Cooper, R., 2012, Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry II: Nosology. Kendler, K. S. & Parnas, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 61-70 (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  21. 2011
  22. 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

  23. Published

    Mental health and disorder

    Cooper, R., 2011, The Sage handbook of health care ethics: core and emerging issues . Chadwick, R., ten Have, H. & Meslin, E. (eds.). London: Sage, p. 251-260 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  24. 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

  25. 2010
  26. 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

  27. 2009
  28. Published

    Is psychiatric research scientific?

    Cooper, R., 2009, Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience: philosophical perspectives. Broome, M. & Bortolotti, L. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  29. 2007
  30. Published

    Psychiatry as a value-laden science.

    Cooper, R. V., 11/2007, Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science. London: Acumen, 240 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  31. Published

    Are there natural kinds in psychology?

    Cooper, R., 2007, Revitalising causality: realism about causality in philosophy and social science. Groff, R. (ed.). Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  32. 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

  33. 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

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