Healers and scientists: The epistemological politics of research about medicinal plants in Tanzania: Or 'moving away from traditional medicine'

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 263-295

  Langwick, Stacey A ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

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