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. 2003 Aug;29(4):227–230. doi: 10.1136/jme.29.4.227

Psychiatry and the control of dangerousness: on the apotropaic function of the term "mental illness"

T Szasz 1
PMCID: PMC1733760  PMID: 12930856

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