Psychiatry in Tasmania: from old cobwebs
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Eric Ratcliff; Ken Kirby
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Article
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2001
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Informa plc
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English
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Objectives: To highlight some major historical trends in psychiatric practice in Tasmania from the inception of the asylum culture in the 1830s to the dynamic of deinstitutionalisation since the 1960s. Source material includes asylum registers and case notes from the early colonial period, annual re