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Issues for Women in the Development of Mental Health Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Fiona Subotsky
Fiona Subotsky*
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS
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Abstract

“Except as occasional consultants, the less men doctors have to do with female lunatics the better”. (Lowe, 1883)

“As long as women are over-represented among mental patients and family caretakers and under-represented among psychiatrists, administrators and politicians, their lives will continue to be unhappily affected by decisions in which they take no part”. (Showalter, 1987)

Type
Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue S10: Women and Mental Health , May 1991 , pp. 17 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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