The chemical question

Reportage

Mapping the brain-biology frontier

Bianca Nogrady

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Published 20210504
ISBN: 978-1-922212-59-7
Extent: 264pp
Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

‘IT’S MY HORMONES, doc. It’s my hormones, and no one’s listened to that.’

It was the late 1980s, in what was once Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital in inner-city Melbourne. A brash young registrar doing her training in psychiatry had arrived at her first hospital placement, full of ideas and enthusiasm. Perhaps to put a bit of scuff on that bright ambition, she was assigned to look after the female patients in the ‘back ward’.

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