 Values have unfailingly played a part in the way mental disorders are classified, conceptualized, experienced as personal diagnosis, and treated. Philosophical accounts fall into evaluativist and objectivist camps, however, according to their allegiance to the possibility of a value-free science of psychiatry (these are considered in  §8.1).  Values also affect societal and personal attitudes towards disorder and diagnosis, in ways that are more immediate, considerably more urgent, and morally consequential (see  §8.2).  Some of these issues are dealt with in bioethical research directed specifically to psychiatry  (§8.3).