The Construction of Reality in the Child
Abstract
The relative incidence of types of mental illness in various cultures has been treated by this reviewer in a survey entitled âObservation on Cultural Paychiatry During a World Tour of Mental Hospitalsâ (Am. J. of Psychiat., Vol. xo8 : 462, Dec. 1951).The facts presented there relation between cultural mental disease processes, pointed to a positive cor-ston,M. D.Press,Som MsmciNs. By Jago Gold(Cambridge : Harvard University Price : $2.75.)The Meaning of Social Medicine is a little book on a very big subject. In an age oft threatened by tidal waves of printerâs ink one is grateful to Dr.Galdston for having condensed his argument into some I 55 pages. Since the subject matter of the book is of great complexity and urgency, he forestalls intellectual âstutteringâ by starting out with a clarifying distinction between âsocialized medicineâ and âsocial medicine.â The much heralded âsocialized medicineâ is concerned primarily with the distribution of the benefits of medical treatment and is therefore largely a government function,be madesituations and certain even though no definite as to the how and why ofsuch linkages. Galdstonâs thesis is far more encompassing. While granting psychiatry its due, he is evidently concerned that âsocial medicineâ should not be regarded as