Idioms of distress revisited

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 401-416

  Nichter, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYNDROME; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WITCHCRAFT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SEMANTICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; SYNDROME; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 77953082757     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-010-9179-6     Document Type: Article

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