Institutional Review Boards have expressed concern that research into sensitive topics such as mental disorder will cause participants undue distress. This study investigated the emotional responses of 5,220 Australians to a survey on mental-health-related discrimination. Participants were interviewed about their mental health and experiences of discrimination across 10 life domains and then the emotional impacts of the survey. Results suggested that a minority experienced a negative reaction in contrast to 88% reporting positive experiences. A mental health problem was associated with (...) both negative and positive reactions. (shrink)

Specialized monographs can be useful sorts of things, but this book may not truly fit the bill. In it, Wolf-Devine offers an exegesis of Descartes' accounts of the physiology of the visual system and of our perception of light, color, situation, distance, size, and shape, along with some background discussion both of Descartes' predecessors and of Cartesian philosophy. While she also claims to be interested in the "big picture" changes in natural philosophy and epistemology to which Descartes's work contributes, these (...) concerns intrude on the work only intermittently. Still even with the more limited set of aims, the book may both overreach its monographic grasp and fall a bit short. (shrink)