The African mind in health and disease: a study in ethnopsychiatry |
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Contents
Physical anthropology | 13 |
The African environment | 21 |
Physical disease | 57 |
6 other sections not shown
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admissions adult African culture African mentality African psychiatry African psychology America American Negroes anaemia areas average Bantu behaviour brain carbohydrate Carothers cerebral chapter chief child common cultural factors deficiency depressive described diagnosis diet discussed disease emotional environment environmental factors epilepsy especially Europe European evidence experience fact feminization figures function Gallais genetic Gold Coast importance incidence infections insane intelligence involutional melancholia Kenya kwashiorkor lack later liver living malaria malnutrition mental disorder mental hospital mentally defective monograph Moreover Nairobi native neuroses normal Northern Rhodesia nutritional observed occur organic parasites patients patterns peculiar pellagra persons physical play population present writer probably protein psychiatry psychoses races racial rare reaction types regard relation relatively riboflavine rural Africans says schizophrenia seems seen seldom shown sickle cell anaemia social South Africa symptoms syndrome syphilis tests traits trypanosomiasis usually vitamin Whites
Bibliographic information
| Title | The African mind in health and disease: a study in ethnopsychiatry Issue 17 of Monograph series, World Health Organization World Health Organization Monograph |
| Author | John Colin Carothers |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Negro Universities Press, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jul 18, 2008 |
| Length | 177 pages |
| Subjects | › Psychology / General Social Science / Black Studies (Global) |
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