Pharmaceuticals, the commodification of health, and the health care-medicine use transition

Anthropology and International Health: Asian Case Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 268-333

  Nichter, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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