Toward a Medical Anthropology of Sensations: DefinitionS and Research Agenda

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 142-162

  Hinton, Devon E ^a   Howes, David ^b   Kirmayer, Laurence J ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

semiotics; sensation; sensory modalities; somatic symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; NAUSEA; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SELF CONCEPT; SENSATION; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; VERTIGO;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MENTAL HEALING; METAPHOR; SELF CONCEPT; SENSATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 45349090121     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461508089763     Document Type: Article

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