use information from the articles below to discuss the globalisation of mental health and whether or not it is a good thing or a bad thing and we must give ethnographic examples

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Waters, E. (2010) The Americanization of Mental Health, New York Times, Jan 8th 2010. Access Online:

Waters Ethan (2010) Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. New York: Free Press. (Introduction and Chapters 1 & 4).

Kleinman, Arthur (1988) Rethinking Psychiatry New York: Free Press. (Chapters 3 & 4).

Ecks, Stefan. (2010) ‘Polyspherical Pharmaceuticals: global psychiatry, capitalism and space, in: Jenkins, J. H. Pharmaceutical Self: the global shaping of experience in an age of
psychopharmacology. Santa Fe: SAR Press.

Good, Byron J. ‘Studying mental illness in context: local, global, or universal’? Ethos, Vol. 25, No. 2, (Jun., 1997), pp. 230-248.

Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio (2010) ‘Trauma in Postconflict Aceh’ in: Jenkins, J. H. Pharmaceutical Self: the global shaping of experience in an age of psychopharmacology. Santa Fe: SAR Press.

(2011) ‘A Renewed Agenda for Global Mental Health’ The Lancet. Vol 378, (22) (On Moodle)

(2011) ‘The Rights of People with Mental Disorders’ WPA perspective, The Lancet. Vol 378 October 29, (On Moodle)

(2011) ‘A Global Scope for Global Health—including mental health’ The Lancet. Vol 378 November 5 (On Moodle)

Burton, N. (2009). The Meaning of Madness. London: Acheron Press.