Culturally grounded review of research assumptions

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 47-53

  Hufford, David J ^a,b,c  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c INNOVISION COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; RESEARCH;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CULTURE; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 0030186419     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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