Transcultural psychiatry [7]

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 181, Issue DEC., 2002, Pages 535-536

  Dein, S ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPROSTATIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ANTHROPOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; INFECTION; LEPROSY; LETTER; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICINE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SANITATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036885646     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.181.6.535     Document Type: Letter

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