John’s Reviews > Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche > Status Update

"The cross-cultural psychiatrists and anthropologists [...] I've come to think of them as psychology's version of botanists I the rain forest, desperate to document the diversity while staying only a few steps ahead of the bulldozers."

I don't think I'd object to this metaphor if we were talking about something like language. But for illness or seems ghoulish.