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Preface to the third edition | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Perspectives on mental health and illness | |
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Chapter overview | |
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The perspectives outwith sociology | |
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Psychiatry | |
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Psychoanalysis | |
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Psychology | |
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The statistical notion | |
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The ideal notion | |
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The presence of specific behaviours | |
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Distorted cognitions | |
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The legal framework | |
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Conclusion about the perspectives outwith sociology | |
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The perspectives within sociology | |
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Social causation | |
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Critical theory | |
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Social constructivism | |
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Social realism | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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Stigma revisited and lay representations of mental health problems | |
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Chapter overview | |
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Lay views of psychological differences | |
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Stereotyping and stigma | |
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Intelligibility | |
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Competence and credibility | |
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Does labelling matter? | |
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The role of the mass media | |
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Social exclusion and discrimination | |
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Social capital, social disability and social exclusion | |
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Conclusion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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Social class and mental health | |
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Chapter overview | |
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The general relationship between social class and health status | |
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The relationship between social class and diagnosed mental illness | |
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Social class, social capital and neighbourhood | |
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The relationship between poverty and mental health status | |
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Labour market disadvantage and mental health | |
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Housing and mental health | |
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Social class and mental health professionalism | |
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Lay views about mental health and social class | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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Women and men | |
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Chapter overview | |
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The over-representation of women in psychiatric diagnosis | |
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Does society cause excessive female mental illness? | |
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Vulnerability factors | |
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Provoking agents | |
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Symptom-formation factors | |
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Is female over-representation a measurement artefact? | |
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Sex differences in help-seeking behaviour | |
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Are women labelled as mentally ill more often than men? | |
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The effects of labelling secondary deviance - women and minor tranquillizers | |
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Men, dangerousness and mental health services | |
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Gender and sexuality | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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Race and ethnicity | |
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Chapter overview | |
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Theoretical presuppositions about race | |
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Race and health | |
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The epidemiology of mental health, race and ethnicity | |
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Methodological cautions about findings | |
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Type of service contact | |
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Disproportionate coercion | |
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Black people's conduct and attributions of madness - some summary points | |
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Asian women and the somatization thesis | |
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Irish people and psychiatry | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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Age and ageing | |
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Chapter overview | |
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Emotions and primary socialization | |
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Sociology, childhood and mental health | |
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Childhood sexual abuse and mental health problems | |
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Social competence in adulthood | |
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Dementia and depression in older people | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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The mental health professions | |
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Chapter overview | |
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Theoretical frameworks in the sociology of the professions | |
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The neo-Durkheimian framework | |
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The neo-Weberian framework | |
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Social closure | |
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Professional dominance | |
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The neo-Marxian framework | |
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Eclecticism and post-structuralism | |
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Mental health professionals and other social actors | |
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Sociology and the mental health professions | |
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Eclecticism and post-structuralism | |
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The neo-Weberian approach | |
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Symbolic interactionism | |
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The influence of the sociology of deviance | |
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The influence of the sociology of knowledge | |
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The influence of feminist sociology | |
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The impact of legislative arrangements and service redesign | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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The treatment of people with mental health problems | |
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Chapter overview | |
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Therapeutics | |
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A brief social history of psychiatric treatment | |
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Criticisms of psychiatric treatment | |
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Why have physical treatments tended to predominate? | |
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Minor tranquillizers | |
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Major tranquillizers | |
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Antidepressants | |
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Psychological therapies | |
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Why is there a problem of legitimacy about the effectiveness of psychiatric treatment? | |
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The moral sense of 'treatment' | |
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Who is psychiatry's client? | |
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The question of informed choice | |
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Insight | |
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The morality of others | |
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Comprehensive and comprehensible information | |
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Coercion | |
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Specifiable actions | |
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The social distribution of treatment | |
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The impact of evidence-based practice on treatment | |
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Disputed evidence about ECT | |
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Users' views as evidence in service research | |
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Tackling social exclusion as a focus of treatment | |
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Governmentality and self-help | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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The organization of mental health work | |
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Chapter overview | |
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The sociology of the hospital | |
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The rise of the asylum | |
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The crisis of the asylum | |
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Responses to the crisis | |
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The 'pharmacological revolution' | |
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Economic determinism | |
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Changes in the organization of medicine: a shift to acute problems and primary care | |
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Community care and reinstitutionalization | |
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Public health, primary care and the new technology revolution | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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Psychiatry and legal control | |
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Chapter overview | |
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Legal versus medical control of madness | |
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Mentally disordered offenders | |
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The problematic status of personality disorder | |
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The persistence of a problematic concept: the case of 'dangerous and severe personality disorder' | |
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Socio-legal aspects of compulsion | |
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The globalization of compulsion | |
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Professional interests and legislation | |
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Dangerousness | |
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Violence and mental disorder | |
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Suicide and mental disorder | |
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Impact on patients of their risky image | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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Users of mental health services | |
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Chapter overview | |
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The diffuse concept of service use | |
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Relatives or 'significant others' | |
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Users as patients | |
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The disregarding by researchers of those users' views that do not coincide with the views of mental health professionals | |
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The notion that psychiatric patients are continually irrational and so incapable of giving a valid view | |
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Patients and relatives are assumed to share the same perspective, and where they do not, the views of the former are disregarded by researchers | |
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Framing patient views in terms which suit professionals | |
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Users as consumers | |
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Literature on psychiatric patient satisfaction and dissatisfaction | |
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Users as survivors | |
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The phenomenology of surviving the psychiatric system | |
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Survivors as a type of new social movement | |
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Users as providers | |
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The tension between advising, providing and campaigning | |
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Discussion | |
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Questions | |
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For discussion | |
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Further reading | |
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References | |
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Index | |