Biomedical subjects

Peter Shea

Publications and source records attributed to Peter Shea.

2 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2005

The New South Wales Inebriates Act: going, going, gone?

OBJECTIVE: To describe how the use of psychiatric hospitals as institutions for inebriates came about in New South Wales. CONCLUSIONS: A so-called 'temporary' solution to a political problem in 1929 led to the psychiatric hospitals in New South Wales becoming repositories for inebriates for the next 75 years. This unsatisfactory situation may be about to change.

Alcohol Drinking↗

PubMed2004

Administrators: masters or servants?

OBJECTIVE: To question the role of medical administrators of mental health services. CONCLUSIONS: The primary allegiance of medical administrators should be to patients and the clinicians who care for them, not to politicians and those who hold the purse strings.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗