Devon E Hinton; Byron J Good Hardcover sku-10787007

Culture and Panic Disorder is a hardcover listed under Devon E Hinton; Byron J Good as sku-10787007 in Collectible Comics N.E. It examines how the psychiatric classification of panic disorder emerged, how medical theories changed over time and whether the diagnosis applies across cultures.

The book questions the validity of psychiatric classifications even within the cultures where they originated. Medical and psychological anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and historians of science contribute ethnographic accounts of panic disorder in different cultures.

Described as the first available work focused on its historical and cross-cultural aspects, it revisits Western theories of panic.