Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals) - 9781138839625

Name: Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals) - 9781138839625
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)Author(s): Suman Fernando\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138839625, 978-1138839625\nSynopsis\nAs psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an ethnocentric body of knowledge, the vehicle of implicit and overt racism. Originally published in 1988 this author, however, saw no reason why the contemporary psychiatrist should not challenge this ethnocentrism. He provides a critical account of the development of psychiatry in relation to its cultural context and then examined contemporary practice of the time in the light of this development. Throughout, the book is informed by an awareness of issues of race and culture and of their difficult interactions, the author emphasising both the frequency of racist attitudes and th.