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biological psychiatry  

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  • The history of psychiatric knowledge has been one of competition between two dominant etiological paradigms: one favoring the social causation of mental illness and the other favoring biological causes. Psychiatry is currently dominated by biological models of etiology that re-emerged in the United States during the 1970s. [Source: Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide; Biological Psychiatry]

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