A Beautiful Mind and Insulin Coma: Social Constraints on Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 284-290

  Fink, Max ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; INSULIN;

ACHIEVEMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVULSIVE THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIC COMA; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242317827     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/hrp.11.5.284.290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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