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Care in the Community
Martin Sixsmith outlines the reforms that closed Britain's Victorian asylums and a new policy of 'care in the community'. From May 2014.
At the end of this week of programmes examining psychiatry, the medicalised model for treating mental illness, Martin outlines the impact of reforms during the latter half of the Twentieth Century that resulted in the closure of Britain's Victorian asylums and a new policy of 'care in the community'.
Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University of London.
Producer: Alan Hall
A Falling Tree Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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