Joan Bicknell
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Joan Bicknell
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Joan Bicknell was Britain's first female psychiatry professor. She worked at St George's, University of London and pioneered the area of learning disability. She confronted cruelty at psychiatric hospitals and was a human rights advocate of institutionalized people with intellectual disabilities, unpopular with and never accepted by the medical establishment. She introduced multidisciplinary hospital management and community-based care.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Bicknell
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2017-12-15T14:10:11Z
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2024-08-29T01:58:09Z
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