Anthropology and Psychiatry
The Role of Culture in Cross-Cultural Research on Illness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23329286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Kleinman (0000-0003-0721-2017, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 151 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 447-454 |
| Publication date | 1987-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1250 • E-ISSN: 1472-1465 |
| Publisher | Royal College of Psychiatrists (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1192/bjp.151.4.447 |
| PMID | 23923142 |
| OpenAlex | W2123207663 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 220 |
| References cited | 10 |
To illustrate the contribution anthropology can make to cross-cultural and international research in psychiatry, four questions have been put to the cross-cultural research literature and discussed from an anthropological point of view: ‘To what extent do psychiatric disorders differ in different societies?’ ‘Does the tacit model of pathogenicity/pathoplasticity exaggerate the biological aspects of cross-cultural findings and blur their cultural dimensions?’ ‘What is the place of translation in cross-cultural studies?’ and ‘Does the standard format for conducting cross-cultural studies in psychiatry create a category fallacy?’ Anthropology contributes to each of these concerns an insistence that the problem of cross-cultural validity be given the same attention as the question of reliability, that the concept of culture be operationalised as a research variable, and that cultural analysis be applied to psychiatry's own taxonomies and methods rather than just to indigenous illness beliefs of native populations.
Cross-cultural · Cross-cultural studies · Cultural anthropology · Epistemology · Fallacy · Indigenous · Medical anthropology · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections · Ecology · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Migration, Health and Trauma · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 220 |
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| Citations per year | 5,95 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 210 |