Global knowledge flows and the psychiatric encounter in Indonesia.
In this article, we examine the clinical encounters of people diagnosed with a severe mental illness (SMI). Drawing on more than 1‐year of ethnographic research and interviews in Indonesia, we show that instances of moral self‐reflection occurring in the process of acquiring and appropriating clinic...
| Published in: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 1 - 16 |
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