Stereotypes of mental illness: A comparison with ethnic stereotypes

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1979, Pages 205-229

  Townsend, John Marshall ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; STEREOTYPY;

ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0018668741     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00114611     Document Type: Article

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