Book:
MacLachlan, Malcolm: Culture and Health. A Critical Perspective Towards Global Health, 2006. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.. The whole book (250 pages).
Articles:
Beiser, M. (2006). Longitudinal Research to Promote Effective Refugee Resettlement. Transcultural Psychiatry March 2006 43: 56-71 (15 pages)
British Psychological Society (2008). Working with Interpreters in Health Settings. Guidelines for Psychologists.http://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-psychology/traininghandbook/sectionfiles/Appendix6BPSguidanceonworkingwith interpreters.pdf (20 pages)
Elsass, P. Carlsson, J., Jespersen, K., Phuntsok, K. (2009). Questioning western assessment of trauma among Tibetan torture survivors. A quantitative assessment study with comments from Buddhist Lamas . Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, 19 (3), 195 – 2003. Download from: http://www.irct.org/library/torture-journal/back-issues/volume-19,-no.-3,-2009.aspx (8 pages)
Kirmayer, L. J. (2006). Beyond the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry': cultural biology, discursive psychology and the ironies of globalization. Transcultural Psychiatry, 43(1), 126-144 (18 pages)
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Psychotherapy and the cultural concept of the person. Transcultural Psychiatry, 44(2), 232-257 (14 pages)
Rogler, L.H. (1999). Methodological Sources of Cultural Insensitivity in Mental Health Research. American Psychologist. June. 424-433 (10 pages)
Silove, D., Austin, P. & Steel, Z. (2007). No Refuge from Terror: The Impact of Detention on the Mental Health of Trauma-affected Refugees Seeking Asylum in Australia. Transcultural Psychiatry September 2007 44: 359-393 (33 pages)
Stige, S. H. & Sveaass, N. (2010). Living in exile when disaster strikes at home. Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture. ISSN 1018-8185. 20(2), s 76- 92. Downloaded from: http://www.irct.org/library/torture-journal/back-issues/volume-20,-no.-1,-2010.aspx (15 pages)
Recommended reading:
Abebe, D.S. (2010). Public Health Challenges of Immigrants in Norway: A Research Review. NAKMI report 1/2010. (71)
Kumar, B. (2008). The Oslo Immigrant Health Profile. Folkehelseinstituttet. Rapport 2008:7 (58) http://www.fhi.no/dav/920ab22ad5.pdf.
Helsedirektoratet (2009) Migration and health. Challenges and trends. http://www.helsedirektoratet.no/vp/multimedia/archive/00133/Migrationandhealt_133289a.PDF. (94)
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Refugees and forced migration: hardening of the arteries in the global reign of insecurity. Transcultural Psychiatry, 44(3), 307-310. (3)
Sveaass, N. (2008). Destroying minds: Psychological Pain and the Crime of Torture. New York City Law Review, 11,2, 303-324 (21)