RT Journal
A1 Fleisher MH
T1 Ethno-psychopharmacology: Advances in current practice
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD March 4
VO 301
IS 9
SP 976
OP 977
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.232
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.232
AB 
This text on ethnopsychopharmacology is an important effort to help fill a gap in current clinical practice and, in part, aspires to lead to more reasoned approaches to psychopharmacology as medication management. The editors, along with 24 other international contributors, have produced a well-written book about a topic that barely existed as serious discourse a decade ago. For readers not familiar with the broader topic of ethnopharmacology, it (briefly) is the scientific study of the similar and dissimilar relationships between ethnic groups, including medication dynamics and the broad cultural aspects of particular groups regarding their concepts of health. This text obviously focuses on the pharmacological aspects of psychiatric medications from this perspective, and in that regard the editors have created a work well worth reading.