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QJM Advance Access originally published online on July 22, 2006
QJM 2006 99(8):563-564; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcl083
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Coda

The enduring asylum

John Launer

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‘Loonies’, they shouted from the back of the coach. ‘Loonies!’ I can't remember if we had reached the gates of the mental hospital yet, but I was excruciatingly embarrassed, and I prayed that they would stop. It didn't help me very much that I understood, to an extent, what had provoked some of the students in my year to such cruel mockery. It was 1974. Sociology had just become a compulsory subject at our medical school in London. The young sociology lecturers had arrived with a mission to radicalize the next generation of doctors, offering us the latest . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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