''If you don't believe it, it won't help you'': Use of bush medicine in treating cancer among Aboriginal people in Western Australia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shahid, Shaouli ^a,b   Bleam, Ryan ^a   Bessarab, Dawn ^a,b   Thompson, Sandra C ^a,b,c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PHILOSOPHY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SPIRITUALITY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77953692441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-6-18     Document Type: Article

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