On trial

On trialThe book explores the early days of industry sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940 80 whilst telling a larger story: the changing history of clinical trials.

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Ike was born in Poland in 1928

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