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category fallacy: a standalone construct

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Medical anthropology

the error of applying a diagnostic category developed in one culture to another where it lacks coherence or meaning.

In medical anthropology, category fallacy refers to the error of applying a diagnostic category developed in one culture to another where it lacks coherence or meaning. This meaning comes from Kleinman (1977) in Social Science & Medicine (1967).[1]

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Kleinman, A. M. (1977). Depression, somatization and the “new cross-cultural psychiatry”. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 11(1), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90138-x

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