Systems of medicine and nationalist discourse in India: towards "new horizons" in medical anthropology and history.
@article{Khan2006SystemsOM,
title={Systems of medicine and nationalist discourse in India: towards "new horizons" in medical anthropology and history.},
author={Shamshad A Khan},
journal={Social science \& medicine},
year={2006},
volume={62 11},
pages={
2786-97
}
}78 Citations
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