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  • RACE AND CULTURE IN PSYCHIATRY (PSYCHOLOGY REVIVALS)
    SUMAN FERNANDO
    As 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 cha...

    $520.00

  • MENTAL HEALTH IN A MULTI-ETHNIC SOCIETY
    FERNANDO, DR SUMAN / KEATING, FRANK
    This new edition of Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society is an authoritative, comprehensive guide on issues around race, culture and mental health service provision. It has been updated to reflect the changes in the UK over the last ten years and features entirely new chapters by over twenty authors, expanding the range of topics by including issues of particular concern for...

    $1,040.00

  • FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY, RACE AND CULTURE
    DR SUMAN FERNANDO / SUMAN FERNANDO / DAVID NDEGWA / MELBA WILSON
    Forensic psychiatry is the discipline which distinguishes the 'mad' from the 'bad', but are its values inherently racist? Why are individuals from non-Western backgrounds over-represented statistically in those diagnosed with schizophrenia and other serious illnesses? The authors argue that the values on which psychiatry is based are firmly rooted in ethnocentric Western cultur...

    $1,040.00

  • CULTURAL DIVERSITY, MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHIATRY
    DR SUMAN FERNANDO / SUMAN FERNANDO
    'Black and minority ethnic communities lack confidence in mental health services', according to the National Service Framework for Mental Health published by the Department of Health in 1999. Cultural Diversity, Mental Health and Psychiatry examines how and why this situation has come about, and makes specific practical, often surprising, suggestions for changing the status quo...

    $1,000.00