Medical anthropology
Study of human health and disease
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Culture-bound syndrome
The DSM-5 officially dropped the term 'culture-bound syndrome' and replaced it with the new terminology 'cultural concepts of distress', signaling a shift in medical understanding of culturally specific psychiatric phenomena.
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