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Profile: Derek Summerfield — politics and psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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4 Summerfield, D. Afterword: against ‘global mental health’. Transcuit Psychiatry 2012; 49: 112.Google Scholar
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