Reasons for using CAM

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenge and Change

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 61-78

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Vincent, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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