The naturalization of psychiatry in Indonesia and its interaction with indigenous therapeutics
Psychiatry developed as a modern branch of medical knowledge in Western societies and arrived in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth century. Dutch colonialism brought psychiatry and psychology to the Dutch East Indies as part of the development of European therapeutics in that part of the empire....
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| Language: | English |
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BRILL
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |
| Online Access: | http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/view/3555 |