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The History of Medicine

4.3 - The Alienist Invasion

Jan 25, 2021
06:19

This week, we talk about the alienists, and their reforms to asylums of the mid 1800s. Phillipe Pinel is to lay the groundwork, but still no major progress is made in terms of treatment of psychological disease.

A Painting of Pinel Releasing Patients

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