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The Domains of Psychiatric Practice: From Centre to Periphery

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Acknowledgments

The six original research articles in this volume were presented at the 2005 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, in a panel on the Anthropology of Psychiatry. Janis Jenkins, who served as discussant on the panel, provided us with invaluable analytical insight. I wish to also thank the contributors to this volume for their enthusiasm, lively debates and insight into the anthropology of psychiatry. Amongst them, special thanks go to Junko Kitanaka for comments on a previous draft of this editorial.

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Béhague, D.P. The Domains of Psychiatric Practice: From Centre to Periphery. Cult Med Psychiatry 32, 140–151 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-008-9096-0

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