Setting it straight in the Andes: Musculoskeletal distress and the role of the componedor

Medical Pluralism in the Andes

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 63-91

  Oths, Kathryn S ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203222515-7     Document Type: Chapter

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