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Research in the hormone relaxin has advanced considerably since the first international congress on this subject in Italy in 1982. Human relaxin has been synthesised and the first clinical trials performed. There is now much more information on the role of relaxin in the maintenance of pregnancy and its role at parturition as a paracrine hormone. Further, many new sites for relaxin action have now been described - these include the brain, heart, blood vessels, gastrointestinal tract, prostate and the nonpregnant ovary. Relaxin research in many species has advanced and much more is known now...

Based on international research, this collection incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness, while maintaining the concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological aspects. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences, and of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists, but all mental health professionals encountering the clinical problems bridging culture and psychosis.