236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an ethnocentric body of knowledge, the vehicle of implicit and overt racism. Originally published in 1988 this author, however, saw no reason why the contemporary psychiatrist should not challenge this... Read more
Introduction. 1. The Culture of Psychiatry 2. Current Psychiatry 3. Cross-cultural Research 4. Socio-cultural Psychiatry 5. Racist Psychiatry 6. The Race–Culture Argument 7. A Blue-print for Change. References. Index.
Biography
Suman Fernando
