Healing herbs and dangerous doctors: "Fruit fever" and community conflicts with biomedical care in Northeast Thailand

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 349-368

  Pylypa, Jen ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fruit fever; Health services; Rash; Thailand; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFLICT; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; RASH; THAILAND;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PHYSICIANS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; THAILAND;

EID: 35648963588     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2007.21.4.349     Document Type: Article

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