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Edited by Robert P. Cabaj and Terry S. Stein. 978 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1996. $89.95. ISBN 0-88048-716-X.

There has always been a close fit between social norms and medical diagnosis and treatment. The treatment of homosexuality is a case in point. In no other diagnostic area can one find greater confusion between social mores and scientific judgment." With these comments, psychologist Charles Silverstein begins an outline of the history of the medicalization and treatment of homosexuality in the first chapter of this book, the most comprehensive one on homosexuality to date. Although the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (third edition) in 1973 because of insufficient evidence that it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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