Agonias: The social and sacred suffering of Azorean immigrants

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-110

  James, Susan ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Immigrant; Mental health; Portuguese

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; RELIGION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AZORES; CATHOLICISM; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MENTAL HEALING; MENTAL HEALTH; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0036491884     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015295013651     Document Type: Article

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