Gadè deceptions and lies told by the ill: The Caribbean sociocultural construction of truth in patient-healer encounters

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 175-188

  Massé, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MORALITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0036705694     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1364847022000029732     Document Type: Review

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