Biomedical resistance to ethnomedicine in Botswana
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Biomedical resistance to ethnomedicine in Botswana.
The issue of whether and how ethnomedical practitioners can be incorporated into existing biomedical systems in developing countries continues to be debated. Although a number of reasons have been advanced as to the barriers to incorporation, none of these take into account the views of nurses on incorporating ethnomedical practitioners into the biomedical system. Data from Botswana, where the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(86)90310-2