Response to Munro: "Judicial psychiatry in China and its political abuses".
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چکیده
A. LAW AND PSYCHIATRY PRIOR TO 1949 .......................................................................10 B. THE EARLY YEARS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC ..........................................................13 C. THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION .....................................................................................22 D. PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE IN THE POST-MAO ERA ..............................................................34
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
دوره 30 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002