Editorial: Farmer suicides in India: The role of psychiatry and anthropology

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 291-292

  Aggarwal, Neil ^a  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DNA DETERMINATION; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GOVERNMENT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUNGER; INDIA; JOB STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; POLITICS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUICIDE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; INDIA; PSYCHIATRY; SUICIDE;

EID: 47349114908     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764007088396     Document Type: Editorial

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