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(Topics in Social Psychiatry.) Edited by Marjorie J. Robertson and Milton Greenblatt. 357 pp. New York, Plenum, 1992. $45. ISBN 0-306-43789-9.

Over the past decade, the medical community has created many programs for the delivery of integrated care for homeless persons. The literature on the medical problems of homeless people has not kept pace with that on the social, economic, and political issues surrounding this deeply disturbing social condition. Homelessness successfully integrates both areas, while favoring the psychiatric and social over the strictly medical. This is an impressive book that amply reviews much of the knowledge and theory about homeless people in America. It is the first volume in a series entitled "Topics in Social Psychiatry," the focus of which will . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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