AI Article Synopsis
- Koro is a specific cultural syndrome where individuals fear their genitals or breasts will retract into their bodies, potentially leading to death.
- The history of Koro spans from traditional Chinese medicine to modern medical and sociological perspectives, highlighting evolving understandings of the condition.
- The text emphasizes the importance of combining standardized criteria with understanding the causes of Koro to effectively address and classify this complex cross-cultural disorder.
Article Abstract
Koro is a culture-bound syndrome characterized by a fear that the genitals or breasts will retract into the body and cause death. Here we consider the history of ideas about Koro, from early concepts in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to contemporary ideas from medicine and sociology. This conceptual history reveals important issues about the classification (nosology) of Koro. In doing so, it demonstrates the need to integrate standardized phenomenological criteria with etiological models in order to capture the important features of complex behavioral disorders in the cross-cultural setting.
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