An ethnographic study of salt use and humoral concepts in a Latino farm worker community in California’s Central Valley

BACKGROUND: This article reports on the use of domestic or table salt for its perceived health effects and healing properties in a Latino farmworker community. It explores how contemporary salt usage beliefs can be seen to have roots in long-standing humoral theories of medicine and health. METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Barker, Judith C., Guerra, Claudia, Gonzalez-Vargas, M. Judy, Hoeft, Kristin S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28178991
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-017-0140-4

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