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ArticleAnthropology & medicine2019

Doktor Kot, Doktor Sla - book doctors, plant doctors and the segmentation of the medical market place in Meghalaya, northeast India.

Sandra Albert, John Porter, Judith Green

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Article in Anthropology & medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sandra AlbertIndian Institute of Public Health Shillong , Shillong, Meghalaya , India.
John PorterLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , London , United Kingdom.
Judith GreenLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , London , United Kingdom.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite decades of research on India's plural health care market, the practices of many local health traditions outside the allopathic and codified traditions are under-studied. Drawing on interview and observational data, this paper explores the space in which indigenous traditional Khasi healers in Meghalaya state, northeast India, practice. Khasi indigenous healers describe themselves as

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Health PersonnelMedicine, AyurvedicPhytotherapyAnthropology, MedicalCultural DiversityDelivery of Health Care, IntegratedFemaleHumansIndiaMalePhysiciansIndigenousKhasi tribemedical pluralismtribal medicine

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PMID29035094
PMCPMC6816482

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