Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Article Types and Descriptions
Original Research Articles
Original research articles draw on ethnographic material, clinical material (or both) to make an original theoretical, methodological, or practical contribution to existing knowledges and/or practices. Research articles should be no longer than 8500 words in length, inclusive of footnotes and references.
Clinical Case Studies
Clinical Case Studies (CCS) are analyses of clinical cases that are relevant to scholarship in the fields of interest of the journal. These analyses should make an original intervention into the clinical, ethnographic, and/or theoretical literature. Clinical case studies should be no longer than 8500 words in length, inclusive of footnotes and references.
Cultural Case Studies
Cultural Case Studies (CuCS) have paralleled the traditional Clinical Case Studies (CCS) that have appeared for some time in CMP. However, the Cultural Case Studies’ perspectives are from the “anthropological clinic” rather than the psychiatric. The focus of Cultural Case Studies is on cultural and psychocultural aspects of a case and its social/cultural context rather than specific, formal criteria of psychiatric evaluation. The elements of significance, thus, can vary from case to case. These analyses should make an original intervention into the clinical, ethnographic, and/or theoretical literature. Cultural case studies should be no longer than 8500 words in length, inclusive of footnotes and references.
Illness Narratives
This section provides the chief outlet for medical humanities pieces that include narratives of illness experiences of sufferers as well as those of healers, caregivers and researchers. It is hoped that some of these will be multimedia presentations on the web as well as appearing in print. Illness narratives should be no longer than 5000 words in length, inclusive.
Book Reviews
Books are received by the journal and appear in the journal’s End Matters. These may be requested for review by CMP’s readership. Such reviews may appear in CMP, following editorial review. Book reviews should address the main arguments of the book and the evidence that is presented to substantiate the author’s claims, contributions made by the book to theoretical and methodological debates, and a critical rendering of the merits and weaknesses of the book. CMP recognizes that these elements may change slightly depending on the nature of the work. Book reviews should be no longer than 5000 words in length, inclusive.