Navigating diagnoses: Understanding mind-body relations, mental health, and stigma in Nepal

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 462-491

  Kohrt, Brandon A ^a   Harper, Ian ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnopsychiatry; Mind body dichotomies; Nepal; Psychosocial; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEPAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEPAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 55949101298     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-008-9110-6     Document Type: Article

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