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Cross-cultural issues in illness and wellness: Implications for depression

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Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

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This paper addresses cultural factors in illness and wellness, using depression as a specific context. The issue of cultural relativism and commensurability of diagnosis and evaluation of outcomes across cultures is discussed. The concepts underlying traditional systems of healing are compared to those of Western orthodox medicine.

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Mukherji, B.R. Cross-cultural issues in illness and wellness: Implications for depression. J Soc Distress Homeless 4, 203–217 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02088018

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