Domestic medicine and indigenous medical systems in Haiti : culture and political economy of health in a disemic society
This study analyses the development of health care in Haiti as it has emerged from a syncretic cultural background. The historical bases of the social and cultural practices surrounding health and illness are described as four separately developing but interacting strands--domestic medicine, mercant...
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McGill University
1983
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| Online Access: | http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=76729 |