Negotiating health and identity: Lay healing, medicinal plants, and indigenous healthscapes in highland Peru

Latin American Research Review

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 93-111

  Gold, Catherine Leah ^a   Clapp, Roger Alex ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84855590947     PISSN: 00238791     EISSN: 15424278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lar.2011.0053     Document Type: Article

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