1] The DSM-5 represents the incorporation of psychiatry into evidence-based medicine. 2] The psychiatry proper to the intention was transformed into that based on empirical validation. 3] The DSM-5 is an expression of modern science that gives priority to calculating, objectifying, classifying, operational knowledge. 4] An ethic of autonomy and fairness characteristic of verification was superimposed on the ethics of beneficence proper to the intention. 5] DSM-5 cannot determine whether psychiatric disorders are natural entities, practical types made by researchers, socially constructed entities, labels that are grouped into a system.
Keywords:
DSM-5, ethics, validation, mental disorders, evidence-based medicine
Figueroa, G. (2021). Bioethical challenges of the DSM-5. Rupture, recalibration, or more of the same?. Acta Bioethica, 27(1), pp. 9–16. Retrieved from https://revistapolitica.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/63948
