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Ethno-psychopharmacology : advances in current practice /
No one reacts or responds to a drug in exactly the same way, just as no two persons are exactly alike. Individual and ethnic differences in drug response have been consistently found in clinical practice. This book covers all the important factors that explain how and why drug treatments used in psy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Culture and psychopathology; 3 Culture and ethnicity in psychopharmacotherapy; 4 Ethnic differences in psychotropic drug response and pharmacokinetics; 5 Pharmacogenetics of ethnic populations; 6 Variation in psychotropic responses in the Chinese population; 7 Variation in psychotropic responses in the Hispanic population; 8 Identifying inter-ethnic variations in psychotropic response in African Americans and other ethnic minorities
- 9 Complementary medicines in mental disorders10 Cultural factors and the use of psychotropic medications; 11 Outpatient prescribing practices in Asian countries; 12 Psychiatric inpatient psychotropic prescribing in East Asia; 13 Pharmaco-economic implications for Asia and other economically disadvantaged countries; 14 Integrating theory, practice and economics in psychopharmacology; 15 Research directions in ethno-psychopharmacology; Index