Social defeat and the culture of chronicity: Or, why schizophrenia does so well over there and so badly here

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-172

  Luhrmann, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography of psychosis; Homelessness; Schizophrenia; Social causation; Social defeat

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; UNITED STATES;

CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547247689     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-007-9049-z     Document Type: Article

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