The Science of Medicine

The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 393-409

  Wujastyk, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Encyclopedias; Linguistic study; Medical science; Medicine; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746943559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998694.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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