The medicalization of the exotic: Latah as a colonialism‐bound “syndrome”

Deviant Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-75

  Bartholomew, Robert E ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0031540575     PISSN: 01639625     EISSN: 15210456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01639625.1997.9968043     Document Type: Article

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