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A Hunger for Knowledge and Respect

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Genetics and Mental Illness

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In January, 1993, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment held the first major meeting on genetics and mental illness to invite to the table, on an equal footing with world-class researchers, those most profoundly affected by the topic at hand: people with severe mental illness and our families. This inclusiveness challenges discriminatory assumptions, prejudices, and oversimplification of complex etiologies which have dogged the quest to eradicate major mental illness, and still dog us, who have no choice but to live in the belly of that beast.

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    Mary Ann Beall

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    Laura Lee Hall

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Beall, M.A. (1996). A Hunger for Knowledge and Respect. In: Hall, L.L. (eds) Genetics and Mental Illness. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0170-5_7

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