Aliens and alienists : ethnic minorities and psychiatry / Roland Littlewood and Maurice Lipsedge
1997, 3rd edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #423457
ISBN: 0415157250
Physical description: xvi, 352 pages. Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgements; 1 Ethnic minorities and the psychiatrist; 2 Medicine and racism; 3 The question of black depression; 4 Mental illness among immigrants to Britain; 5 A digression on diagnosis; 6 The price of adaptation; 7 Sick societies; 8 A prelude to insanity; 9 Normal and abnormal; 10 The illness as a communication; 11 Some conclusions; 12 The development of 'transcultural psychiatry' in Britain 1982-96; References; References to Chapter 12; Index. Subject: Immigrants Mental health Great Britain.
Minorities. West Indians. Jews. Cultural psychiatry. Psychology. Emigration and immigration. Ethnopsychology. Ethnicity. Racism. Refugee Health.
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