Queensland aborigines, multiple realities and the social sources of suffering: Psychiatry and moral regions of being

Oceania

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-120

  Cox, Leonie ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian aborigines; Christianity; Ethnography; Phenomenology; Psychiatry; Spirituality; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549130990     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: 18344461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2009.tb00054.x     Document Type: Article

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