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Leon Eisenberg
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 215
Citations - 11090
Leon Eisenberg is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Health care. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 215 publications receiving 10817 citations. Previous affiliations of Leon Eisenberg include Boston Children's Hospital & Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Culture, Illness, and Care: Clinical Lessons from Anthropologic and Cross-Cultural Research
TL;DR: A limited set of concepts derived from anthropologic and cross-cultural research may provide an alternative framework for identifying issues that require resolution, including a fundamental distinction between disease and illness and the notion of the cultural construction of clinical reality.
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World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries
TL;DR: The global context of well-being and mental illness and psychiatric services, as well as substance abuse and violence, and an agenda for action, are examined.
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Culture, Illness, and Care: Clinical Lessons From Anthropologic and Cross-Cultural Research
TL;DR: A limited set of concepts derived from anthropologic and cross-cultural research may provide an alternative framework for identifying issues that require resolution, including a fundamental distinction between disease and illness and the notion of the cultural construction of clinical reality.
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Treating depression and anxiety in primary care. Closing the gap between knowledge and practice.
TL;DR: This booklet explains how to identify and treat depression in patients with a history of depression and some of the basic symptoms of the disease can be confused with other psychiatric disorders.