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From social medicine to social psychiatry: the achievement of Sir Aubrey Lewis1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Michael Shepherd
Michael Shepherd*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
2Address for correspondence: Professor Michael Shepherd, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.
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Synopsis

A brief account is given of the evolution of the concept of social psychiatry and its relationship to that of social medicine. The central role played in its scientific development by Sir Aubrey Lewis is traced in some detail.

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Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , May 1980 , pp. 211 - 218
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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Footnotes

1

This article originally appeared in Healing and History: Essays for George Rosen (edited by Charles Rosenberg). © 1979. Neale Watson Academic Publications: New York.

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