Transcultural Psychiatry Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity. The Edge of Experience. Janis Hunter Jenkins, Robert John Barrett, editors. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press; 2004. 357 p. US$85.00.
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This book's editors, professors of psychiatry and anthropology at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Adelaide, respectively, were both postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard. Their clinical and ethnographic studies on culture and mental health prepared them for the challenging task of integrating the volume's contributions, which show alternative conceptual frameworks related to culture and …