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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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Main Authors: Blaisdell, Amy, Vindal Ødegaard, Cecilie
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: BioMed Central 2014
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096414/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24993891
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-10-52
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