Monday, July 04, 2005

Mind and culture : psychiatry's missing diagnosis : racial disparities found in pinpointing mental illness / Washington Post, 28 June 2005

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Shankar Vedantam
"Although schizophrenia has been shown to affect all ethnic groups at the same rate, the scientist found that blacks in the United States were more than four times as likely to be diagnosed with the disorder as whites. Hispanics were more than three times as likely to be diagnosed as whites." (Last of three articles)