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Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts

China, Healing, and the West to 1848

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$36.00 • £28.95 • €32.50

ISBN 9780674023970

Publication Date: 04/30/2007

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480 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

30 halftones

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Linda L. Barnes is Director of the Masters Program in Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, at Boston University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at BUSM and in the Division of Religious and Theological Studies at Boston University.

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