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23 - Reflections Social Inequalities and Mental Health Outcomes

Toward a New Architecture for Global Mental Health

from Section Four - Psychiatric Practice in Global Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2015

By
Duncan Pedersen
Edited by
Laurence J. Kirmayer ,
Robert Lemelson  and
Constance A. Cummings
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Robert Lemelson
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Constance A. Cummings
Affiliation:
Foundation for Psychocultural Research, California
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Re-Visioning Psychiatry
Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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