Commentary: Stigma, conscience, and science in psychiatry: Past, present, and future

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 413-417

  Sadler, John Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSCIENCE; EDUCATION; EMPOWERMENT; FUNDING; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; MORALITY; NOTE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; STIGMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FORECASTING; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MENTAL HOSPITAL; SCIENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CONSCIENCE; FORECASTING; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRY; SCIENCE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 65249095473     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181a08f32     Document Type: Note

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