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Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome

BACKGROUND: "Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto among Hispanics, though both develop in the wake of trauma...

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Autor principal: Quinlan, Marsha B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20163730
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-6-9