Public conceptions of mental illness: labels, causes, dangerousness, and social distance.

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  American Journal of Public Health

• Publication date

  1999-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2105/AJPH.89.9.1328PMID 10474548PMCID PMC1508784
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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