Sacred Healing and Biomedicine Compared

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 178-197

  Finkler, Kaja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

biomedicine; doctor patient relationship; healing process; Mexico; sacred healing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016537969     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.1994.8.2.02a00030     Document Type: Article

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