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A Career of Clinical Research in Child Psychiatry

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With hindsight I can say that my career as an investigator in child psychiatry started when I was at the University of Chicago studying premedical and medical courses and pathology from 1918 to 1923. I worked in the pathological laboratories of H. Gideon Wells studying the blood of tuberculous guinea pigs and learning the methodology and philosophy of research (Bender and DeWitt, 1923–1924).

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Bender, L. (1975). A Career of Clinical Research in Child Psychiatry. In: Anthony, E.J. (eds) Explorations in Child Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2127-9_28

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