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Recovery From Schizophrenia: Psychiatry And Political Economy

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MADNESS AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 117Table 5.3 Patients discharged “recovered” expressed as a percentage of admissions in selected years for American asylums open before 1845 aSource: Percentages calculated from data in Grob, G.N.I, Mental Institutions in America, New York: Free Press, 1973, pp. 374–93.Notes: a These figures, being calculated on statistics for a single year, are substantially less accurate and more subject to fluctuation than if basedon longer time periods.bHospital open but figures not available.

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