Etiology in human and animal ethnomedicine

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-131

  Green, Edward C ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Ethnomedicine; Ethnoveterinary medicine; Etiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749157769     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007430926620     Document Type: Article

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