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8 - The 1980s: A long, restless finale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2026

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Beginning with Kuhn’s retirement in 1980, which also marked his transition to private practice, the chapter deals with Kuhn’s last trial, his plans and activities as a pensioner, and the scandal surrounding another doctor in Thurgau who had administered investigational drugs to residents of a retirement nursing home. Histories of psychotropic drug development started being written in 1990, and Kuhn made every effort to be recognised for his ‘disiy’. At the same time, the onset of historicisation prompted him to return to the many papers he had accumulated over the course of his professional life.

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