Effecting science, affecting medicine: Homosexuality, the kinsey reports, and the contested boundaries of psychopathology in the United States, 1948-1965

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 300-318

  Chiang, Howard Hsueh Hao ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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HISTORY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; POLITICS; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55749112631     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: 15206696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20343     Document Type: Review

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