From Categories to Contexts: A Decade of the ‘New Cross-Cultural Psychiatry’
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- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 156 (3) , 308-327
Abstract
Over the last ten years a new approach to psychiatric knowledge has developed under the influence of social anthropology. Its origins, assumptions, methods, achievements, and limitations are reviewed.Keywords
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