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Italian forensic psychiatry: a story still to be written

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Angelo Fioritti  and
Vittorio Melega
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 2000 , pp. 219 - 226
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