Tom Burns, Professor of Social Psychiatry at Oxford University, has summed up a subject which has been mired in controversy since ancient times in 133 small pages. Pyschiatry: A Short Introduction (OUP, £6.99) steers a careful course between the science and the cultural and social factors in mental illness
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