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Observations on Foreign-Body Swallowing in Prisons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

John J. Landers
John J. Landers*
Affiliation:
H.M. Prison, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight
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The swallowing of foreign bodies is more prevalent in prisons than in mental hospitals. Is it that there is something in the prison environment which causes some prisoners to swallow foreign bodies, or should the clue be sought for in the personalities of the swallowers? A few prison swallowers are insane, the great majority are not.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 95 , Issue 401 , October 1949 , pp. 897 - 900
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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