Culture and Depression - Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder (Paperback, Revised)

Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depression presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies, agreements, and conceptual and methodological problems that arise in the course of such research. A book of enormous depth and breadth of discussion, Culture and Depression enriches the cross-cultural study of emotions and mental illness and leads it in new directions. It commences with a historical study followed by a series of anthropological accounts that examine the problems that arise when depression is assessed in other cultures. This is a work of impressive scholarship which demonstrates that anthropological approaches to affect and illness raise central questions for psychiatry and psychology, and that cross-cultural studies of depression raise equally provocative questions for anthropology.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, 16
Release date:	August 1986
First published:	1987
Editors:	Arthur Kleinman • Byron J. Good
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	500
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-05883-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN:	0-520-05883-6
Barcode:	9780520058835

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