Medical schismogenics: Compliance and "culture" in Caribbean biomedicine

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 447-476

  Whitmarsh, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barbados; Compliance; Pharmaceutical; Schismogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149182795     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.0.0060     Document Type: Article

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