Causation as strategy: Interpreting humours among Tibetan refugees

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 119-130

  Prost, Audrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INDIA; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RELIGION; REVIEW; RLUNG DISORDER; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATIZATION; TIBETAN MEDICINE;

EID: 33745726410     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: 14692910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470600738591     Document Type: Review

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