Culture and Mental Health: A Southern African View

by Leslie Swartz and Leslie Swartz

This book introduces key issues in understanding social and cultural factors as they relate to mental health and illness, and to a southern African understanding and construction of these categories. It lays out central international and local debates in the field of mental health in an accessible way, making use of extensive research and case studies. Central theoretical debates (such as those between relativism and universalism, and between hermeneutical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195709810
• ISBN13: 9780195709810
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"