The movement for global mental health : critical views from South and Southeast Asia / edited by William Sax and Claudia Lang.

In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors:	Sax, William Sturman, 1957- (Editor), Lang, Claudia (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Series:	Social studies in Asian medicine.
Subjects:	Mental health > Cross-cultural studies. Mental illness > Cross-cultural studies. Mental health > South Asia. Mental health > Southeast Asia. Mental illness > South Asia. Mental illness > Southeast Asia. Psychiatry. Cultural pluralism. Cultural pluralism Mental health Mental illness Psychiatry South Asia Southeast Asia Cross-cultural studies