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Review
. 1990 Mar:156:308-27.
doi: 10.1192/bjp.156.3.308.

From categories to contexts: a decade of the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry'

R Littlewood  1
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From categories to contexts: a decade of the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry'

R Littlewood. Br J Psychiatry. 1990 Mar.

Abstract

Over the last ten years a new approach to psychiatric knowledge has developed under the influence of social anthropology. Its origins, assumptions, methods, achievements, and limitations are reviewed.

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