Culture Medicine and Psychiatry

Disease and illness Distinctions between professional and popular ideas of sickness

Leon Eisenberg · 1977 · 791 citations

Social Sciences, Internal Medicine, Medical Anthropology +10

Idioms of distress: Alternatives in the expression of psychosocial distress: A case study from South India

Mark Nichter · 1981 · 780 citations

Nursing, Psychology, Trauma-related Disorders +9

The heart of what's the matter The semantics of illness in Iran

Byron J. Good · 1977 · 691 citations

Social Sciences, Psychiatry, Medical Sociology +4

Neurasthenia and depression: A study of somatization and culture in China

Arthur Kleinman · 1982 · 678 citations

Social Sciences, Psychiatry, Psychology +7

John Henryism and the health of African-Americans

Sherman A. James · 1994 · 646 citations · Full text

Humanities, African American Studies, Health Policy +8