Lunatic to patient to person: nomenclature in psychiatric history and the influence of patients' activism in North America.

Int J Law Psychiatry

Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Published: April 2003

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