Des frontières culturelles en santé mentale au Canada ? Entre psychiatrie, démographie et sociologie, retour sur les études de H.B.M. Murphy en épidémiologie

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Des frontières culturelles en santé mentale au Canada ? Entre psychiatrie, démographie et sociologie, retour sur les études de H.B.M. Murphy en épidémiologie
Abstract
The author explores the development of psychiatric epidemiology, an emerging academic field during the post-war period, in the context of ecological and environmental studies. The sources used by the author document the works of H.B.M. Murphy (1915-1987), a Scottish-born physician recruited by McGill University in 1959 to teach and undertake epidemiologic research in the newly formed transcultural psychiatry unit led by Eric Wittkower (1899-1983). She notes that Murphy’s break with traditional analysis of hospital statistics to focus on a small number of communities would lead him to confront the question of minorities and Franco-Canadian identity when interpreting his results.
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Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française
Volume
Vol 75
Issue
no. 1-2
Pages
129-152
Date
Été-Automne 2021
Language
fr
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Delille, Emmanuel. “Des frontières culturelles en santé mentale au Canada ? Entre psychiatrie, démographie et sociologie, retour sur les études de H.B.M. Murphy en épidémiologie.” Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française Vol 75, no. 1–2 (té-Automne 2021): 129–152. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/haf/2021-v75-n1-2-haf06924/1088211ar/.
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