Why psychiatry needs ethnography.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1192/bjp.2025.10318 and PMC identifier 12492062.
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Abstract
Psychiatrists and anthropologists both rely on observation, discourse analysis and access to participants' internal and external worlds. Ethnographic fieldwork, a key method in medical anthropology, offers a powerful tool to establish a robust evidence base of how to address mental health inequalities in ethnic minority communities.
Medical subject headings
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Anthropology, Medical
- Minority Groups
- Psychiatry