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The Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry, London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Griffith Edwards
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What sort of animal is a ‘research unit’ supposed to be? At one extreme it can see itself as a collection of workers each pursuing his own bent, and who just happen to lodge in the same building. The opposite would be a unit dedicated to rigidly programmed research.

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Research report
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , May 1972 , pp. 192 - 197
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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