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By Andrew Scull. 360 pp., illustrated. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 2005. $30. ISBN 0-300-10729-3.

Andrew Scull, a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, tells a fascinating story — really several stories — about the history of psychiatry, the personal and professional lives of several famous psychiatrists, and the limitations and failures in the oversight of the care of the disadvantaged. He argues against placing too much trust in experts, but he actually makes a strong case for the value of expert clinical research and the danger of ignoring its findings.

Henry Cotton, a disciple of Adolf Meyer, the chairman of the department of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, was medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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