Risk and Efficacy in Biomedical Media Representations of Herbal Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 210-217

  Lewis, Monique ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

anthropology of science; ethnic classification; ethnicity; minzu shibie; social engineering; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055104372     PISSN: 15332101     EISSN: 15523845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2156587211409940     Document Type: Article

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