Attempts to underpin the classification of psychiatric drugs in biological and clinical terms are discussed with reference to their value and limitations. The current need for a multiplative, heuristic taxonomy is suggested.

Psychotropic Drugs↗

PubMed1980

From social medicine to social psychiatry: the achievement of Sir Aubrey Lewis.

A brief account is given of the evolution of the concept of social psychiatry and its relationship to that of social medicine. The central role played in its scientific development by Sir Aubrey Lewis is traced in some detail.

Community Psychiatry↗

PubMed1980

Mental health services and primary medical care.

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Community Mental Health Services↗

PubMed1980

Mental health as an integrant of primary medical care.

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Community Health Services↗

PubMed1979

Psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and health services.

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History, 20th Century↗

PubMed1979

"A safety equivalency for leakage testing of wall-mounted monitors".

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California↗

PubMed1979

Medico-social evaluation of the long-term pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia. Comparative study of fluphenazine and pimozide.

1. A controlled clinical trial has shown oral pimozide to be clinically at least as effective as fluphenazine decanoate in the continuation treatment of schizophrenia. 2. Pimozide was also associated with more favourable measures of social outcome. 3. Some implications of these findings are discussed.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1979

Social work and the primary care of mental disorder.

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Adult↗

PubMed1979

Mediastinal lymph node biopsy in sarcoidosis.

Mediastinoscopy, in the skilled hands of a thoracic surgeon has proved to be a safe, cosmetically accepted procedure with negligible complications. It has yielded a high rate of diagnostic lymph node tissue; overall greater than 82% among patients with sarcoidosis, including patients presenting with pulmonary mottling only or with a normal chest radiograph. Among patients with lymphatic tuberculosis it enabled the isolation of human M. tuberculosis following culture of the lymph node removed on Löwenstein-Jensen medium in greater than 79% of cases. A precise histological diagnosis was obtained in all 14 patients presenting with hilar and/or paratracheal lymphadenopathy attributable to malignant disease.

Adult↗

PubMed1979

The psycho-historians: a psychiatrist's skepticism.

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Historiography↗

PubMed1979

[The epidemiological approach to depression (author's transl)].

The epidemiological method is indispensable to the clinical investigator, the practising clinician and the public health worker. In the field of mood disorders epidemiological inquiry has been hampered by the subjective nature of the phenomena under study, the problems of assessment and diagnosis, observer bias and the unrepresentative nature of small population samples. Nontheless, it is argued that the difficulties are similar to those encountered elsewhere in medicine and examples are given of epidemiological contributions to an understanding of depression.

Adolescent↗