TY  - GEN
AU  - Khan,Nichola
TI  - Mental disorder : : anthropological insights
SN  - 9781442635333
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Mental disorders
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Culture
KW  - Ethnic groups
N2  - This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial frameworks, allowing readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality are constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology, psychiatry, and medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures
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