"The medicine from China has rapid effects": Chinese medicine patients in Tanzania

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 291-313

  Hsu, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMEDINE; ARTEMETHER; ARTESIMININ; ARTESUNATE; ASCORBIC ACID; COTECSIN; DIHYDROARTESIMININ; FANSIDAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FORMULATION; FEVER; HUMAN; MALARIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

EID: 0037907747     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470216335     Document Type: Article

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