The Register of "Complaint": Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Discourse of Grievance in the South Indian Mental Health Encounter

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-240

  Chua, Jocelyn Lim ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Complaint; Diagnosis; Emotion; Kinship and family; Psychiatry; South India

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84862257569     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2012.01202.x     Document Type: Article

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