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Book Review A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. By Edward Shorter. New York: John Wiley, 1997, x + 436 pp., $19.95 (paper)

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Lehrman, N.S. Book Review A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac. By Edward Shorter. New York: John Wiley, 1997, x + 436 pp., $19.95 (paper). Psychiatr Q 70, 173–177 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022105520763

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