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Carl G. Madsen, Jr, MD
Painesville, Ohio

JAMA. 1975;234(4):382.

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To the Editor.—

I'm writing to say how much I enjoyed the book review (231:982, 1975) in which Marjorie C. Meehan, MD, reviewed Models of Madness, Models of Medicine by Miriam Siegler and Humphrey Osmond (Macmillan, 1974). I agree that in our clinical effort to get at the causes of aberrant behavior and function, clinicians have generated nomenclature expressing that same predominately causal focus so succinctly expressed by Dr Meehan.

Unfortunately, when third parties have preoccupied themselves with generating categories of individuals regarded as deserving of funds, they have borrowed from clinical nomenclature and established categorical funding according to etiologic categories. In the state of Ohio, accusations of misappropriation of funds may be made if mental retardation funds go for the operation of mental health agencies. Champions of each category jealously guard funds from dispersal to agencies caring for individuals similarly incapacitated and functionally capable of benefiting from programs of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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