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By Michael Robbins. 511 pp. New York, Guilford Press, 1993. $45. ISBN 0-89862-997-7.

More than any other disorder in the modern history of medicine, schizophrenia has been an ideological battleground. Early neurologic explanations yielded to psychobiology and psychoanalysis. The 1960s and 1970s brought sociological and political formulations. The slow triumph of empiricism over the past 20 years has led to the notion of schizophrenia as a primary disorder of the brain, albeit one in which psychosocial factors can affect the outcome. So fruitful has this approach been that the current generation of researchers on schizophrenia can easily forget just how new this intellectual environment is. This book can serve to remind them; written . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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