Alternative medicine devices and the making of scientific herbal medicine in Ghana.
Many herbal medicine clinics in the West African nation of Ghana employ alternative medicine diagnostic equipment to help them stand out within a competitive popular medical sector. These devices are a prominent feature of clinics that identify as practising scientific herbal medicine, and they prom...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 229 - 248 |
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Jun2022
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