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Chapter 14 - Culture-Bound Syndromes

Past, Current Status and Future

from Section 2 - Culture and Mental Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

By
Dinesh Bhugra ,
Rubens Dantas  and
Antonio Ventriglio
Edited by
Dinesh Bhugra  and
Kamaldeep Bhui
Dinesh Bhugra
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Kamaldeep Bhui
Affiliation:
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry , pp. 158 - 173
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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