''Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry'' is a cross-cultural

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published quarterly by

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History

The journal was established in 1977 by

Arthur Kleinman Arthur Michael Kleinman (born March 11, 1941) is an American psychiatrist, psychiatric anthropologist and a professor of medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry at Harvard University. He is well known for his work on mental illness ...

(

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), who was

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until 1986. Kleinman was succeeded by

Byron Good Byron Joseph Good (born 1944) is an American medical anthropologist primarily studying mental illness. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University, where he is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Professor of ...

(Harvard University), with Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Harvard University) serving as co-editor from 1992 through 2004. In 2004, Anne Becker (

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) and Peter J. Guarnaccia (

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), became co-editors-in-chief and served until 2007. They were succeeded in 2007 by Atwood D. Gaines (

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), who brought on Managing Editor Brandy L Schillace (

). At that time, a range of new categories of scholarly contributions were introduced (Circumstantial Deliveries, Illness Narratives, Communiqués, Opinions, and Cultural Case Studies), in addition to the regular research articles. The scope of the journal was also expanded to include not only the social sciences of medicine but also the histories and philosophies of medicine and science and bioethics. In addition, the journal hosted a medical humanities special issue in December 2012 and continues to seek medical history and medical humanities works in addition to other related content. In 2019, Rebecca J. Lester (

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) assumed the role of editor-in-chief.

Scope

The journal nowadays describes itself as an "international and interdisciplinary forum for the publication of work in the fields of medical and psychiatric

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

, cross-cultural

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial psych ...

, and associated cross-societal and clinical

epidemiological Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidenc ...

studies".

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2011

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of 1.288.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+&+archaeology/journal/11013 Psychiatry journals Quarterly journals Springer Science+Business Media academic journals Publications established in 1977