Diagnosing the discursive Indian: Medicine, gender, and the "dying race"

Ethnohistory

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 371-406

  Kelm, Mary Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 18844379634     PISSN: 00141801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00141801-52-2-371     Document Type: Article

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