Between Mantra and syringe: Healing and health-seeking behaviour in contemporary Amdo

Medicine between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 157-183

  Schrempf, Mona ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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