Crises of commitment: Ethics of intimacy, kin, and confinement in global psychiatry

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Pinto, Sarah ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Biopower; India; Kinship; Psychiatry; Women

Indexed keywords

DIVORCE; EDITORIAL; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

DIVORCE; FAMILY HEALTH; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 61449106926     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740802631718     Document Type: Editorial

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