False teethand real suffering: The social course of 'germectomy' in Eastern Uganda

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 331-351

  Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANINE TOOTH; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TOOTH; UGANDA; VOMITING;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CUSPID; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; TOOTH, UNERUPTED; UGANDA; VOMITING;

EID: 0034277049     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005615619241     Document Type: Article

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