Mental health and intellectual disability: culture and diversity.
BACKGROUND
Compared with that in mental illness, cultural variation in popular conceptualisations of intellectual disability has been rarely addressed.


METHODS
A survey of the relevant literature was conducted.


CONCLUSIONS
Preliminous conclusions are that local conceptualisation does not lead to invariant social response, but that intellectual disability is generally distinguished from mental illness.
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Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, UK. r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk
D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice; D011639:Public Opinion; D012945:Social Values; D013240:Stereotyping