Ethnopsychiatry: The Cultural Construction of Professional and Folk Psychiatries

Book Overview

This book outlines a "new ethnopsychiatry," one that considers popular or folk ethnomedicines and professional psychiatric systems in the same discourse, effacing the traditional distinction between psychiatry and ethnopsychiatry. The essays in this volume are from a diverse, interdisciplinary group representing history, psychology, sociology, and medicine, as well as anthropology. The author view both ethnomedical practices and illness as local cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791410226
• ISBN13: 9780791410226
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"