The Medicalization of Exotic Deviance: A Sociological Perspective on Epidemic Koro

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-38

  Bartholomew, Robert E ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

koro; mass psychology; medicalization of deviance; phenomenological study; sociological aspects

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPERSONALIZATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIOPATHY;

EID: 0031916583     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346159803500101     Document Type: Article

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