Diabetes, medicine and modernity in Cameroon

Africa

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 475-495

  Awah, Paschal Kum ^a,b   Phillimore, Peter ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b Western Institutional Review Board ^*  (United States)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABETES; HEALTH CARE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MEDICINE; MODERNITY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 58249116706     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/E0001972008000405     Document Type: Article

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