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Volume 155 - December 1989

Contents

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A Hundred Years Ago

Special Review

  • The History of the National Health Service

  • Hugh Freeman
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 720-723

  • In the current furore over fundamental changes proposed for the NHS, it would be much better if everyone involved clearly understood how and why the service was established, how it evolved early on, and what had existed before. A fairly safe bet, though, is that given an MCQ on those subjects, most participants in today's events would emerge with little credit. Yet the whole story is now accessible to them -told by Charles Webster (1988) with outstanding scholarship and clarity, lightened by a slightly acerbic wit.

Correspondence

  • Schizophrenia, season of birth, and maternal age

  • Pak Sham
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    02 January 2018, p. 128
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  • The epileptic arsonist

  • Alan Byrne, J. B. Walsh
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    02 January 2018, p. 268
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  • Treatment of extrapyramidal side-effects

  • Lenard A. Adler, Erica Duncan, Stewart Reiter, John Rotrosen, Burt Angrist
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    02 January 2018, p. 269
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  • Oculogyric crises and schizophrenia

  • D. G. C. Rogers
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    02 January 2018, pp. 569-570
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Books Reconsidered

  • The Myth of Mental Illness: Thomas S. Szasz

  • John Birtchnell
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    02 January 2018, pp. 425-429

  • Thomas Szasz is one of the most disliked names in contemporary psychiatry, and The Myth of Mental Illness is one of the most disapproved of books. It was Szasz's contention that illness can affect only the body and that there can be no such thing as an illness of the mind. He described mental illness as a metaphorical illness, maintaining that one can speak of a 'sick’ mind only in the same way as one can speak of a 'sick’ joke or a 'sick’ economy. He went on to argue that, if there is no mental illness, there can be no treatment for it, and no cure of it. There was, for him therefore, no medical, moral, or legal justification for involuntary psychiatric intervention or hospital admission. Such actions he considered to be crimes against humanity. He believed, after John Stuart Mill, that a man's body and soul are his own and not the state's, and that each individual has the right to do with his body whatever he pleases so long as it does not harm anyone else or infringe anybody else's rights.

Correspondence

  • Beclomethasone mania

  • Michael C. Phelan
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    02 January 2018, pp. 871-872
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Book Reviews

Correspondence

  • Homosexual erotomania

  • Simon Eminson, Tim Gillett, Fuad Hassanyeh
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    02 January 2018, pp. 128-129
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Book Reviews

Correspondence

  • Caution about sorcery

  • L. M. Mynors-Wallis
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    02 January 2018, p. 570
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Book Reviews

Correspondence

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder

  • Jon Kennedy
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    02 January 2018, p. 129
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  • Spontaneous orgasms – any explanations?

  • A. K. Al-Sheikhli
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    02 January 2018, pp. 269-270
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A Hundred Years Ago

Correspondence

  • Neuronal misconceptions

  • V. L. Nimgaonkar
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    02 January 2018, pp. 129-130
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Book Reviews

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