Diffusion reconsidered: Variation and transformation in biomedical practice, a case study from Mexico

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-39

  Finkler, Kaja ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical practice; Globalization; Mexico; Social and cultural change; Social construction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICINE; MEXICO;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; MEDICINE; MEXICO; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0034236580     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2000.9966167     Document Type: Article

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