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Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatric Services was written by authors Roland Littlewood and Sybil Cross. Roland Littlewood received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford in 1987. He currently is a professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry in the Department of Anthropology and Department of Mental Health Sciences. He has an interest in medical and social anthropology of the Caribbean (Trinidad, Haiti), Albania and Britain. There is not available information about the second author Sybil Cross. The article addresses that ethnic minorities such as: African Americans, Asians, and Caribbean descent individuals have a higher probability of being hospitalized due to a psychiatric disorder. The manuscript mentions that ethnic attitudes

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