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Losing fat, gaining treatments: the use of biomedicine as a cure for folk illnesses in the Andes
BACKGROUND: This article explores how people in the Andes incorporate beliefs from both biomedical and ethnomedical systems in treating folk illnesses that often involve spiritual beings. The article focuses on the kharisiri—one who is believed to steal fat and blood from unsuspecting humans to make...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096414/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24993891 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-10-52 |