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MENTAL WELL-BEING IN SETTINGS OF ‘COMPLEX EMERGENCY’: AN OVERVIEW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2004

ASTIER M. ALMEDOM  and
DEREK SUMMERFIELD
ASTIER M. ALMEDOM
Affiliation:
Tufts University, Boston, USA
DEREK SUMMERFIELD
Affiliation:
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK
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The mental state of people affected by war and other disasters has been a subject of special interest to academic researchers and practitioners in humanitarian assistance and public health for over two decades. The last decade in particular has seen a rise in the number of papers published in scholarly journals around the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) debate. Anthropologists have rarely engaged in this debate. Nevertheless, some of the most illuminating contributions have come from socio-medical anthropology (Last, 2000).

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Regular Articles
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , July 2004 , pp. 381 - 388
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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