Healing efficacy and the construction of charisma: A family's journey through the multiple medical field in Russia

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 337-358

  Lindquist, Galina ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ESTHETICS; FAMILY; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0038245305     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470216333     Document Type: Article

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