Medical mimesis: Healing signs of a cosmopolitan "quack"

American Ethnologist

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 24-46

  Langford, Jean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ayurveda; India; Medicine; Mimesis; Quackery; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033246368     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1999.26.1.24     Document Type: Article

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