Technology and alternative cancer therapies: An analysis of heterodoxy and constructivism

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 657-674

  Hess, David J ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Cancer; Constructivism; Medical technology

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NEOPLASM; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0030340810     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1996.10.4.02a00140     Document Type: Article

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