Cross Cultural Psychiatry

By William B. Lawson

Culture is emerging as a major concern in mainstream psychiatry. This text presents data on the ethnic differences in drug treatment of various psychiatric disorders. In particular, new research methodologies in the field of phamacogenetics have begun to provide us with important insights concerning the biological mechanisms that underlie this differential response.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471985872
• ISBN13: 9780471985877
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 6.2"