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Dordrecht Springer 1985 1985 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 518 p. Culture, Illness and Healing, 7.

ISBN10: 902771858X, ISBN13: 9789027718587, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been published on well known and less familiar syndromes, and there have been a number of attempts to put some order into the field of inquiry. In a review of the literature on culture-bound syndromes up to 1969 Yap made certain suggestions for organizing thinking about them which for the most part have not received general acceptance (see Carr, this volume, p. 199). Through the seventies new descriptive and conceptual work was scarce, but in the last few years books and papers discussing the field were authored or edited by Tseng and McDermott (1981), AI-Issa (1982), Friedman and Faguet (1982) and Murphy (1982). In 1983 Favazza summarized his understanding of the state of current thinking for the fourth edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, and a symposium on culture-bound syndromes was organized by Kenny for the Eighth International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology. The strong est impression to emerge from all this recent work is that there is no substantive consensus, and that the very concept, 'culture-bound syndrome' could well use some serious reconsideration. As the role of culture-specific beliefs and prac tices in all affliction has come to be increasingly recogn ...
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ISBN10: 902771858X, ISBN13: 9789027718587, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been published on well known and less familiar syndromes, and there have been a number of attempts to put some order into the field of inquiry. In a review of the literature on culture-bound syndromes up to 1969 Yap made certain suggestions for organizing thinking about them which for the most part have not received general acceptance (see Carr, this volume, p. 199). Through the seventies new descriptive and conceptual work was scarce, but in the last few years books and papers discussing the field were authored or edited by Tseng and McDermott (1981), AI-Issa (1982), Friedman and Faguet (1982) and Murphy (1982). In 1983 Favazza summarized his understanding of the state of current thinking for the fourth edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, and a symposium on culture-bound syndromes was organized by Kenny for the Eighth International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology. The strong est impression to emerge from all this recent work is that there is no substantive consensus, and that the very concept, 'culture-bound syndrome' could well use some serious reconsideration. As the role of culture-specific beliefs and prac tices in all affliction has come to be increasingly recogn ...
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ISBN10: 902771858X, ISBN13: 9789027718587, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Editor(s): Simons, Ronald C.; Hughes, C.C. Series: Culture, Illness & Healing. Num Pages: 518 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMP; M; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 923. . 1985. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1985]