Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture

Author: Arthur Kleinman
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520045114
Category: Medical

Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland Between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry

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