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Issues for cross-cultural psychiatric research in South Africa

✍ Scribed by Leslie Swartz

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Weight: 880 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 0165-005X
DOI: 10.1007/bf00048537

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✦ Synopsis

South Africa's heterogenous society offers many opportunities for cross-cultural psychiatric research, but researchers in the country are subject to a number of restraints. Apart from legally enforced segregation, there are strict censorship laws and restricted access to certain types of information. The issues surrounding categorization of cultures and factors affecting publishing research from South Africa have important implications for the type of work that is done. It is a central argument of this article that the issues affecting research in South Africa are relevant to other countries as well, and parallels between the local and international context are drawn. The South African experience suggests that analysis of the research enterprise itself is a useful part of the business of cross-cultural psychiatric research.

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