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Book ReviewA History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac.By Edward Shorter. New York: John Wiley, 1997, x + 436 pp., $19.95 (paper)

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Book ID: 110415141
Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 297 KB
Volume: 70
Category: Article
ISSN: 0033-2720
DOI: 10.1023/a:1022105520763

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