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Andreas_RebmannThe author used official statements from a variaty of sources.
The author used official statements from a variaty of sources.
Per Bech’s vignette on his patient
Dr. Kramer’s work on antidepressants
“Listening to Prozac”
This study was published in PLOS Medicine, and publishes studies across the spectrum of medical science. It is peer-reviews, and authors pay a publishing fee. It goes against the “cycle of dependency that has formed between the journals and the pharmaceutical industry.” In 2014, PLOS Medicine was given an impact factor (which measures how often studies published in the journal are cited in other studies) of 14.429, ranking 7th out of 153.
The paper presents the challenges that are encountered when one tries to research violence affecting health service industry, such as lack of data and disaggregated data.
The authors, Vicanne Adams, Taslim Van Hattum, and Diana English work at the University of California San Francisco in the department of anthropology, history, and social medicine. The department’s research includes aspects of global health, social theory, critical medical anthropology, and disaster recovery.