In this book two psychiatrists assess the psychological consequences of migration and prejudice for groups as diverse as West Indians, Turkish Cypriots and Hasidic Jews. The authors conclude that mental illness can be an intelligible response to disadvantage and prejudice.
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Editions-Typ
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
illustrations, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 138 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-04-445316-1 (9780044453161)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ethnic minorities and the psychiatrist; medicine and racism; the question of black depression; mental illness among immigrants to Britain; a digression on diagnosis; the price of adaptation; sick societies; a prelude to insanity?; normal and abnormal; the illness as a communication; some conclusions; the development of "transcultural psychiatry" in Britain 1982-9.