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Social aspects of ethno-psychopharmacology: an Arab perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Tarek A. Okasha
Tarek A. Okasha*
Affiliation:
WPA Zonal Representative for North Africa, Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 3 Shawarby Street, Kasr el Nil, Cairo, Egypt, email tokasha@internetegypt.com
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Some 7000 years ago Egyptians believed in one God, the after-world and that our worldly deeds would be balanced in the day of judgement. This led James Breasted to consider that the emergence of Egyptian culture marked the dawn of conscience (Breasted, 1934; Okasha & Okasha, 2000).

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Thematic Papers - Ethno-Psychopharmacology
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International Psychiatry , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 59 - 61
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