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Title: French psychiatry in Algeria (1830-1962): From colonial to transcultural.
Author: B?gu?, Jean-Michel; Freeman, Hugh;
Abstract:
Presents a short account of Arab medicine and a review of the laborious setting up of psychiatric services in Algeria and reviews the works of Algerian comparative psychiatry relevant to Algerian mental patients.
Journal: History of Psychiatry, Vol 7(28, Pt 4), Dec 1996: 533-548.