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The European Community, perpetually in crisis, is about to make a series of crucial decisions as well as to elect a parliament. It would be well advised to pay more attention to the second task than is its habit.
Public policies on psychiatric disability have increasingly centred on community care as an alternative to hospital-ization. In the process, those most in need are being neglected.
Why, these days, are so many brave new ideas destined to bite the dust? And why are so many of them in the physical sciences, supposedly the more exact, rather than in biology?
