Traumatic amputation: A case of Laotian indignation and injustice

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 440-457

  Dinh, Nathalie M H ^a,b   Groleau, Danielle ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinician patient interaction; Cultural idiom; Culture; DSM IV Outline for Cultural Formulation; Explanatory model; Meaning; Social indignation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LAOS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION;

AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC; ATTITUDE; CANADA; HUMANS; LAOS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 48349094368     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-008-9103-5     Document Type: Article

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