TY  - JOUR
T1  - Ethno-psychopharmacology: Advances in current practice
AU  - Fleisher MH
Y1  - 2009/03/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.232
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 976
EP  - 977
VL  - 301
IS  - 9
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.232
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.232
ER  -