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Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and mental illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Nick Glozier*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
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