History and Evidence-Based Medicine: Lessons from the History of Somatic Treatments from the 1900s to the 1950s

Mental Health Services Research

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 231-240

  Braslow, Joel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological psychiatry; Evidence based medicine; History of psychiatry; Somatic therapies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHIATRY;

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC SOMATIC THERAPIES;

EID: 0033302453     PISSN: 15223434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022325508430     Document Type: Review

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