| Description |
xiv, 391 : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Introduction. Culture and mental illness in an international perspective -- Pt. 2. Africa. Transcultural psychiatry in Egypt -- Culture, religion, and mental illness in Nigeria -- The politics of culture and mental illness: the case of South Africa -- Mental disorders in Tanzania: a cultural perspective -- The interface between culture and mental illness in French speaking West Africa -- Pt. 3. Asia. Social correlates and cultural dynamics of mental illness in |
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traditional society: India -- Culture and mental illness among Jews in Israel -- Culture and mental illness in South Korea -- Culture and mental illness in Singapore: a sociocultural perspective -- Mental illness in an Islamic-Mediterranean culture: Turkey -- Pt. 4. Australia, Latin America, and South Pacific. Psychiatry in multicultural Australia -- Cultural factors, religious beliefs, and mental illness in Bali: Indonesia -- Social and cultural psychiatry of Jamaicans, |
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at home and abroad -- Social and cultural psychiatry of Jamaicans, at home and abroad -- Ancient beliefs and psychiatry in Mexico -- Uruguay: subcultures under apparent cultural uniformity -- Pt. 5. Western Europe. Social and cultural factors in German psychiatry -- Modernization and mental illness in Greenland -- Culture and mental illness in the Iberian peninsula -- Pt. 6. Eastern Europe. Culture, politics, and mental illness in the Czech and Slovak republics -- |
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Hungarian culture and mental illness -- Pt. 7. Minorities and ethnic groups in Britain, New Zealand, and North America. Mental illness among American Indians and Alaska natives -- Mental health patterns for the New Zealand Maori -- Mental health among minorities and immigrants in Britain. |
| Subject |
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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Cultural psychiatry.
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Psychology, Pathological.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Psychiatry.
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Ethnicity.
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| Added Author |
Al-Issa, Ihsan.
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| ISBN |
0823622886 |
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