Ethnopsychiatry: The Cultural Construction of Professiona...
Gaines, Atwood D. This book outlines a "new ethnopsychiatry, " one that considers popular or folk ethnomedicines and professional psychiatric systems in the same discourse, effacing the traditional distinction between psychiatry and ethnopsychiatry. The essays in this volume are from a diverse, interdisciplinary group representing history, psychology, sociology, and medicine, as well as anthropology. The author view both ethnomedical practices and illness as lo...