Objective: To demonstrate, by a historical example, how the use of the term ‘Royal’ in the name of the College is unacceptable, and that to continue to use it associates us with past human rights abuses. It is argued further that to resume the title, ‘Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatri
What's in a (new) name?
✍ Scribed by Michael J. Parnham
- Book ID
- 105426562
- Publisher
- SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 70 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1420-908X
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