Hundred Years of Koro the History of a Culture-Bound Syndrome

Arabinda N. Chowdhury
Additional contact information
Arabinda N. Chowdhury: Institute of Psychiatry, 7 D.L. Khan Road, Calcutta 700 025, India

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1998, vol. 44, issue 3, 181-188

Abstract: Koro was first reported in Western medical press in 1895. The original oriental culture-bound 'Koro' is now referred to as 'genital retraction syndrome' in the global literature. During this span of a century, the primary cultural etiological focus of Koro has also shifted towards the concept of disordered body-image perception. A review of the world Koro literature (English language journals and books) of varied ethnic groups, geographical regions and with different comorbidities, shows a fascinating history of its clinical and conceptual progress over the years. This is a brief discussion on the publication history of Koro over the last hundred years.

Date: 1998
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002076409804400304 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:44:y:1998:i:3:p:181-188

DOI: 10.1177/002076409804400304

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().