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The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression: The making of a “gold standard” and the unmaking of a chronic illness, 1960–1980

OBJECTIVES: To show why and how the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression became the ‘Gold Standard’ for assessing therapies from the mid-1960s and how it was used to frame depression as a short-term and curable illness rather than a chronic one. METHODS: My approach is that of the social constructio...

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Autor principal: Worboys, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23172888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742395312467658