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A comparison of French and British mental health legislation1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

I. Laffont  and
R. G. Priest
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , November 1992 , pp. 843 - 850
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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