The patient as a knower: Principle and practice in siddha medicine

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 76-83

  Sujatha, V ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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