Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry


Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is a cross-cultural peer-reviewed medical journal published quarterly by Springer Science+Business Media.

History

The journal was established in 1977 by Arthur Kleinman, who was editor-in-chief until 1986. Kleinman was succeeded by Byron Good, with Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good serving as co-editor from 1992 through 2004. In 2004, Anne Becker and Peter J. Guarnaccia, became co-editors-in-chief and served until 2007. They were succeeded in 2007 by Atwood D. Gaines, who brought on Managing Editor Brandy L Schillace. At that time, a range of new categories of scholarly contributions were introduced, in addition to the regular research articles. The scope of the journal was also expanded to include not only the social sciences of medicine but also the histories and philosophies of medicine and science and bioethics. In addition, the journal hosted a medical humanities special issue in December 2012 and continues to seek medical history and medical humanities works in addition to other related content. In 2019, Rebecca J. Lester assumed the role of editor-in-chief.

Scope

The journal nowadays describes itself as an "international and interdisciplinary forum for the publication of work in the fields of medical and psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and associated cross-societal and clinical epidemiological studies".

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 1.288.