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Culture-bound syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-specific syndrome or culture-bound syndrome is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease on...
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People with bipolar disorder, major depression, schizophrenia or intellectual handicap may also be considered to be suffering from a locally prevalent culture-bound syndrome.
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The focus of these pages is upon a set of illnesses often called "culture-bound syndromes". These are illnesses or illness categories with a strong psychosocial component which are typically found in only one or a few cultural groups. ... suo yang (aka koro), the famous shrinking genital syndrome.
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Culture-bound syndromes (CBSs) comprise a heterogeneous set of illness phenomena of particular interest to medical anthropologists and to psychiatrists. The eclectic nature of the category makes it hard to define precisely, ... a syndrome allegedly occuring in a given cultural setting which does not in fact exist,
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Background Culture-bound syndrome is a term used to describe the uniqueness of some syndromes in specific cultures. Dhat (semen-loss anxiety) has been considered to be an exotic ‘neurosis of the Orient’.
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Though slow on the draw, the American Psychiatric Association began acknowledging the importance of culture in the fourth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) by adding an appendix on culture-bound syndromes. ... A man who suffers from koro, or genital retraction syndrome,
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By: Timothy McCajor Hall ... These pages were created for Professor David Jordan's class ANRG 170: Traditional Chinese Society at UC San Diego during February 1998. Between the update on 6 September 2001 and 21 October 2006 when the pages were finally moved, ... The pages have also been cited in several textbooks,
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BACKGROUND: Culture-bound syndrome is a term used to describe the uniqueness of some syndromes in specific cultures. ... BACKGROUND: Culture-bound syndrome is a term used to describe the uniqueness of some syndromes in specific cultures. Dhat (semen-loss anxiety) has been considered to be an exotic 'neurosis of the...
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The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology ... It seems feasible to regard the precipitation of major mental illness by marriage as a largely culture-bound phenomenon.
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From Abracadabra to Zombies | View All ... ; Last updated 02/23/09 ... Suo yang (Koro): The Genital Retraction Syndrome...
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