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Hans Pols

Hans Pols is with the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Hans Pols, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, Carslaw F07, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia (e-mail: h.pols@usyd.edu.au).

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SOCIAL CLASS AND MENTAL ILLNESS was the result of an unusually creative and productive collaborative research project undertaken by August Hollingshead, a sociologist, and Frederick Redlich, a psychiatrist. By combining their expertise in their respective disciplines, they became pioneers in the field of medical sociology, social psychiatry, and psychiatric epidemiology; their study is now considered a classic in these fields.¹ The main conclusion of this study was that there was a significant relationship between social class and mental illness both in type and severity of mental illness suffered as well as in the nature and quality of treatment that is . . . [Full Text]