Prison or Psychiatric Hospital?

نویسندگان

  • John Bearcroft
  • Mary D. Donovan
چکیده

sort of men were being referred for reports. We particularly wanted to know their diagnosis, social background, the proportion needing hospital admission, whether that admission could have been arranged without the court, whether these people were very different from the ordinary hospital admissions and whether they needed any special nursing care. In 1963 there were 146 referrals of men to the hospital; as some were referred more than once, there

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دوره 25  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1966