What’s in the ‘Treatment Gap’? Ethnographic Perspectives on Addiction and Global Mental Health from China, Russia, and the United States

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 457-477

  Bartlett, Nicholas ^a   Garriott, William ^b   Raikhel, Eugene ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction; global mental health; harm reduction; medicalization; substance use disorders; therapeutics

Indexed keywords

CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; CHINA; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RUSSIA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901252874     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2013.877900     Document Type: Article

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