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‘Scientific’ psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

P. Webster
P. Webster*
Affiliation:
c/o Department of Eating Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 175 , Issue 2 , August 1999 , pp. 192
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Copyright © 1999 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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