Broschiertes Buch

Anthropological Approaches to Psychological Medicine

Crossing Bridges

Herausgeber: Skultans, Vieda; Cox, John

Beschreibung

This text brings together clinicians and researchers in psychiatry and mental health. The aim is to explore what we can learn from anthropology to achieve a contextual understanding of mental illness and health in contemporary society. The book contains a wide selection of ideas, and works well to bridge the gap between anthropology and psychiatry.

Autor

Vieda Skultans is reader in Medical Anthropology at the University of Bristol. She has conducted fieldwork in South Wales, Maharashtra, Nepal and Latvia. Her most recent book The Testimony of Lives. Narrative and Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia was published by Routledge in 1998. John Cox is Professor of Psychiatry at Keele University and a consultant adult psychiatrist. He was a founder member of the Transcultural Psychiatry Society and published widely in the field of Perinatal Mental Health from a sociocultural perspective. He was elected President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1999 and continues his link with the Department of Psychiatry at Makerere University, Uganda where he held his first lecturer post in 1972.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781853027086
• ISBN-10: 1853027081
• Artikelnr.: 21403983