From categories to contexts: a decade of the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry'.
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.
Littlewood
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University College, London.
D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D013997:Time Factors