Soft truth: Ethics and cancer in Northeast Thailand

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 395-404

  Bennett, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; THAILAND;

EID: 0033404517     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.1999.9964595     Document Type: Review

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