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PDFSymposium on psychiatric ethics
Psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: on the apotropaic function of the term “mental illness”
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Psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: on the apotropaic function of the term “mental illness”
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- Accepted September 13, 2002
- First published August 20, 2003.
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August 20, 2003
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