Ethnopsychiatry : the cultural construction of professional and folk psychiatries / edited by Atwood D. Gaines. - Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1992. - 1 online resource (xiii, 506 pages). - SUNY series in medical anthropology . - SUNY series in medical anthropology. .

Based on the 85th American Anthropological Association Meeting, held in 1986 in Philadelphia.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Section 1 -- Orientations -- Section II -- Illness, experience, and the problems of ethnopsychiatric knowledge -- Section III -- Professional ethnopsychiatric ideologies and institutions -- Section IV -- Sources and resources.


English.

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Cultural psychiatry--Congresses.
Medical anthropology--Congresses.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Ethnopsychology.
Medicine, Traditional.
Mental Disorders--ethnology.
MEDICAL--Psychiatry--General.
PSYCHOLOGY--Psychopathology--General.
PSYCHOLOGY--Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY--Mental Illness.
MEDICAL--Mental Health.
Cultural psychiatry.
Medical anthropology.
Psychiatry - General.
Psychiatry.
Health & Biological Sciences.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.

RC455.4.E8 / E85 1992eb

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