The definition and classification of Koro

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-65

  Chowdhury, Arabinda N ^a  

^a Institute of Psychiatry   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BODY IMAGE; CASTRATION ANXIETY; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELUSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; HYSTERIA; KORO; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SYNDROME;

AGE OF ONSET; ANXIETY, CASTRATION; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BODY IMAGE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DELUSIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; HYSTERIA; KORO; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0030099792     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00118750     Document Type: Article

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