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Maurice Eisenbruch

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Mass fainting in garment factories in Cambodia.

Transcultural Psychiatry April 1, 2017 Maurice Eisenbruch 32 citations

This paper reports an ethnographic study of mass fainting among garment factory workers in Cambodia. Research was undertaken in 2010-2015 in 48 factories in Phnom Penh and 8 provinces. Data were collected in Khmer using nonprobability sampling. In participant observation with monks, factory managers, health workers, and affected women, cultural understandings were explored. One or more episodes...