A metaphysics for alternative medicine: 'Translating' the social and biological worlds

Debating Biology: Sociological Reflections on Health, Medicine and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 298-310

  Scott, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203987681     Document Type: Chapter

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