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A quarter century of the history of psychiatry
Author(s) -
Scull Andrew
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199922)35:3<239::aid-jhbs3>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - quarter (canadian coin) , historiography , history of psychiatry , psychiatry , work (physics) , field (mathematics) , psychology , history , psychoanalysis , engineering , mechanical engineering , archaeology , mathematics , pure mathematics
This article reviews the development of the historiography of Anglo‐American psychiatry over the past quarter century, while passing attention to work on the history of psychiatry in Europe. The relationship between earlier and later work is stressed, and recent trends in the field assessed. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.