A Care-full diagnosis: Three Vietnamese Australian women and their accounts of becoming "mentally ill"

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 108-123

  Killingsworth, Ben ^a   Kokanovic, Renata ^b   Tran, Huong ^c   Dowrick, Chris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c N Richmond Community Health Centre   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australia; Cross cultural translation; Mental illness; Vietamese; Western medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; VIET NAM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SPOUSE ABUSE; SPOUSES; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952304864     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01087.x     Document Type: Article

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