Letters: It is wrong to brush aside non-western mentalities and understandings of distress, says Derek Summerfield
As a teacher of psychiatry to medical students in Zimbabwe, I find Tina Rosenberg’s account of the work of Vikram Patel overly glossy . At issue is the globalisation of western psychiatry, for which Patel is a prominent salesman.
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