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WHR Rivers and the politics of trauma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Michael Robertson*
Affiliation:
Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Sydney South West Area Health Service, Liverpool BC, NSW 1871, Australia
Garry Walter
Affiliation:
Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services, Northern Sydney Central Coast Health, Sydney, Australia Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
*
Michael Robertson, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9036 3405; Fax: +61 2 9515 6442; E-mail: [email protected]

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