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A Study of Psychiatric Illness in Coal Miners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Felix Post
Felix Post*
Affiliation:
Jordanburn Nerve Hospital, Edinburgh
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In recent years the mining industry as well as the miner himself have to an increasing extent become subjects for public discussion. In addition to problems of mechanization and industrial organization, the importance of the human element has found growing recognition, and an investigation into psychiatric disorders occurring in miners should form a useful contribution in this field.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 92 , Issue 388 , July 1946 , pp. 574 - 584
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1946 

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