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Title: Selfhood and social distance: toward a cultural understanding of psychiatric stigma in Egypt
Author: Coker EM.
Abstract:
Psychiatric stigma is a concept that is often used uncritically by policy-makers to explain the underutilization of professional psychiatric services in non-Western societies. Stigma, however, is a multi-determined process manifestations and effects o
Journal: Soc Sci Med. 2005 Sep;61(5):920-30. Epub 2005 Mar 3