Swartz L
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1985 Mar;9(1):59-74. doi: 10.1007/BF00048537.
South Africa's heterogenous society offers many opportunities for cross-cultural psychiatric research, but researchers in the country are subject to a number of restraints. Apart from legally enforced segregation, there are strict censorship laws and restricted access to certain types of information. The issues surrounding categorization of cultures and factors affecting publishing research from South Africa have important implications for the type of work that is done. It is a central argument of this article that the issues affecting research in South Africa are relevant to other countries as well, and parallels between the local and international context are drawn. The South African experience suggests that analysis of the research enterprise itself is a useful part of the business of cross-cultural psychiatric research.
南非的多元社会为跨文化精神病学研究提供了诸多机会，但该国的研究人员面临着一些限制。除了法律强制实施的隔离外，还有严格的审查法律以及对某些类型信息的获取限制。围绕文化分类以及影响南非研究成果发表的因素等问题，对所开展的研究工作类型具有重要影响。本文的一个核心观点是，影响南非研究的这些问题在其他国家也同样存在，并对本地和国际背景进行了比较。南非的经验表明，对研究事业本身进行分析是跨文化精神病学研究工作的一个有益组成部分。
