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NEJM Interview: Dr. Joel Braslow on how medicalization and demedicalization have affected patients, including those with chronic mental illness.

Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 3:01 p.m.

b'Dr. Joel Braslow is a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J.T. Braslow and L. Messac. Case Studies in Social Medicine: Medicalization and Demedicalization - A Gravely Disabled Homeless Man with Psychiatric Illness. N Engl J Med 2018;379:1885-8.'