Psychiatry and political–institutional abuse from the historical perspective: The ethical lessons of the Nuremberg Trial on their 60th anniversary
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title={Psychiatry and political–institutional abuse from the historical perspective: The ethical lessons of the Nuremberg Trial on their 60th anniversary},
author={Francisco Javier L{\'o}pez-Mu{\~n}oz and Cecilio {\'A}lamo and Michael J Dudley and Gabriel Rubio and Pilar Garc{\'i}a-Garc{\'i}a and Juan D. Molina and Ahmed Said Okasha},
journal={Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry},
year={2007},
volume={31},
pages={791-806}
}34 Citations
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