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(1985) Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context, Dordrecht, Springer.
The mechanistic viewpoint in nineteenth-century philosophy and science (psychology and physiology)
Gerlof Verwey
pp. 37-85
The transition from anthropologically-oriented institutional psychiatry to so-called university psychiatry, which regarded itself as a natural science and which we associate with the name of Wilhelm Griesinger, is a change indicative of a comprehensive reorientation in scientific thinking in accordance with the so-called mechanistic viewpoint.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-5213-3_2
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Verwey, G. (1985). The mechanistic viewpoint in nineteenth-century philosophy and science (psychology and physiology), in Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 37-85.
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