Healing holidays? Itinerant patients, therapeutic locales and the quest for health

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Naraindas, Harish ^a   Bastos, Cristiana ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATHY; ANTHROPOLOGY; BALNEOTHERAPY; CLIMATE; HEALING; HYDROLOGY; IDEOLOGY; LEISURE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL TOURISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPA TREATMENT; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WELLBEING;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BALNEOLOGY; HEALTH RESORTS; HUMANS; SOCIOLOGY; TRAVEL MEDICINE;

EID: 79956266805     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: 14692910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2010.525871     Document Type: Review

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