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Profile: Derek Summerfield — politics and psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Julia Bland
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BJPsych Bulletin , Volume 41 , Issue 5 , October 2017 , pp. 294 - 296
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4 Summerfield, D. Afterword: against ‘global mental health’. Transcuit Psychiatry 2012; 49: 1–12.Google Scholar
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