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Aspects of Transcultural Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John L. Cox
John L. Cox*
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University Department of Psychiatry (Royal Edinburgh Hospital), Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 130 , Issue 3 , March 1977 , pp. 211 - 221
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977 

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