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The indigenization of pharmaceuticals: therapeutic transitions in rural Hausaland
N L Etkin1, P J Ross, I Muazzamu
1Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
Social Science & Medicine (1982)
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A West African case study illustrates how indigenous understandings of disease and therapeutics may influence the utilization of biomedicines. This focus suggests a more comprehensive approach for the evaluation and design of health care delivery systems in developing world contexts.