Culture-bound syndrome
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culture-bound-syndrome-164-2110361
title:
Culture-bound syndrome
text:
In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome, or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. There are no known objective biochemical or structural alterations of body organs or functions, and the disease is not recognized in other cultures. The term culture-bound syndrome was included in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistica
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Psychiatric and somatic symptoms experienced within a specific culture
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome
date created:
2005-07-25T12:47:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T19:13:31Z
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