Healers as entrepreneurs: Constructing an image of legitimized potency in urban Ecuador

Medical Pluralism in the Andes

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 107-128

  Miles, Ann ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33746657764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203222515-9     Document Type: Chapter

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