Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is an international and interdisciplinary forum for the publication of work in the fields of medical and psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and associated cross-societal and clinical epidemiological studies.
The journal offers original research, and theoretical papers based on original research, across the full range of these fields. Contents include clinically relevant interdisciplinary work which bridges anthropological and medical perspectives and methods, along with research on the cultural context of normative and deviant behavior, including the anthropological, epidemiological and clinical aspects of the subject.
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry fosters systematic, wide-ranging examinations of the significance of culture in health care, including comparisons of how the concept of culture operates in anthropological and medical disciplines.
Highlights:
- A forum for the publication of work in medical and psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry and related fields
- Presents research work which bridges anthropological and medical perspectives and methods
- Examines the significance of culture in health care
- Benefits everyone studying, researching or working in anthropology, psychiatry and general health care
Journal information
- Publishing model
- Hybrid (Transformative Journal). How to publish with us, including Open Access
Journal metrics
- 2.333 (2021)
- Impact factor
- 2.451 (2021)
- Five year impact factor
- 86 days
- Submission to first decision (Median)
- 208,664 (2021)
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Latest issue
Volume 47
Special Section: Medical Knowledge and Practice in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards Interconnected Historiographies of Health, Power and Society
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Introducing Editor-in-Chief Neely Myers and Associate Editor Julia Brown
As of July 1, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry has new leadership. Read Editor-in-Chief Neely Myers and Associate Editor Julia Brown's bios here.
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Special Issue (Full) Table of Contents: Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World
Full table of contents for the special issue "Politicising Children: Transcultural Constructions of Childhood and Psychological Trauma in the Modern World."
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Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Article Types and Descriptions
This documents the types of articles that may be submitted to the journal.
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Introducing the New Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Lester is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and a practicing psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, trauma, personality disorders, and self-harm. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego and completed an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship in Culture and Mental Health at the University of Chicago.
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- 1573-076X
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- 0165-005X
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