The latest issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is devoted to “Cultures of the Internet” – also the title of the 2011 McGill Advanced Study Institute (ASI) in Cultural Psychiatry at which many of the papers were originally presented. In our introductory essay to the issue, Laurence Kirmayer, Sadeq Rahimi and I examine some of the issues which the Internet and other …
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Special Issue: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, “Ethnographies of Suicide”
The June issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is a special issue entitled, “Ethnographies of Suicide.” As guest editors James Staples and Tom Widger write in their introduction:
“This special issue—which has its genesis in a 2-day, international workshop3—comes at the end of a century of sporadic anthropological interest in suicidal behaviour, building on the groundwork established by scholars such
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