Gun laws and mental illness: How sensible are the current restrictions?

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 652-654

  Appelbaum, Paul S ^a   Swanson, Jeffrey W ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; GOVERNMENT; HOMICIDE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; REVIEW; SAFETY; VIOLENCE; ARTICLE; FIREARM; LEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

FIREARMS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954251765     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.61.7.652     Document Type: Review

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