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Anthropology and Psychiatry: The Role of Culture in Cross-Cultural Research on Illness
Abstract
To illustrate the contribution anthropology can make to cross-cultural and international research in psychiatry, four questions have been put to the cross-cultural research literature and discussed from an anthropological point of view: ‘To what extent do psychiatric disorders differ in different societies?’ ‘Does the tacit model of pathogenicity/pathoplasticity exaggerate the biological aspects of cross-cultural findings and blur their cultural dimensions?’ ‘What is the place of translation in cross-cultural studies?’ and ‘Does the standard format for conducting cross-cultural studies in psychiatry create a category fallacy?’ Anthropology contributes to each of these concerns an insistence that the problem of cross-cultural validity be given the same attention as the question of reliability, that the concept of culture be operationalised as a research variable, and that cultural analysis be applied to psychiatry's own taxonomies and methods rather than just to indigenous illness beliefs of native populations.
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- Authors
- Kleinman, A.
- Venue
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 1987-10
- Volume
- 151
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 447-454
- ISSN
- 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-1465
- OpenAlex
- W2123207663
- Cited by
- 729
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 87.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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