Psychiatry, Post-Apartheid Integration and the Neglected Role of Language in South African Institutional Contexts

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-22

  Drennan, Gerard ^a  

^a Valkenberg Hospital   (South Africa)

Author keywords

interpreters; language; psychiatry; South Africa; Xhosa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0033045611     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346159903600101     Document Type: Article

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