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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. Pp. 436

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Book ID: 110429931
Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 196 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 1062-1024
DOI: 10.1023/a:1022970429677

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