A friend of mine works in transcultural psychiatry, and he is interested in the question of why people do and don't take their meds.

What we need is a concerted effort to quell that phenomenon through greater understanding and in an open, critical and transcultural dialogue among all civilizations.

Son preference was generally recognized to exist in most countries in Africa and Asia perhaps to a more marked extent in the latter as a transcultural phenomenon which varied in intensity and expression from one country to another.

External links Journals Cross Cultural Research Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology World Cultures Structure and Dynamics eJournal of the Anthropological and Related Sciences Transtext(e)sTranscultures Trilingual Journal of Global Cultural Studies Social Evolution History Associations Society for Cross Cultural Research Institut d'études Transtextuelles et Transculturelles (IETT), Institute for Transtextual and Transcultural Studies, Lyons, France.