Uncanny Scripts: UnderstandinG Pharmaceutical Emplotment in the Aboriginal Context

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 131-156

  Oldani, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboriginal children; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder; high prescribers; pharmaceutical emplotment; psychotropics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG INDUSTRY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MANITOBA; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; METHYLPHENIDATE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL VALUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WORLD HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63049110983     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461509102291     Document Type: Article

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