Mental health legislation in contemporary India: the need for inter-sectoral dialogue
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I enjoyed the article by Dawson & Szmukler (2006) because I like to keep up to date with legal and ethical issues in mental health. However, their claim for equivalence between mental and physical diseases sits uneasily with scientific papers published in the Journal. Shaw et al (2006) found that schizophrenia had a prevalence of 5% in perpetrators of homicide, compared with 1% in the general p...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Psychiatry
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1749-3676
DOI: 10.1192/s1749367600005294