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Presents the views on tuberculosis and health-seeking activities of several patients in the Tzeltal hamlet of Yochib.
Focuses on the cultural factors that includes patients' medical choices, curing regimens.

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Discusses the role of money vis-a-vis health care among the Dagomba, an agrarian people living in northern Ghana, whose pluralistic medical culture involves the use of both plants and Western pharmaceuticals in the treatment of various symptoms.

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Examines the historical context of Cameroonian experience with colonial vaccination campaigns and the contemporary contexts of the turmoil of democratization movements and economic crisis.

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The term syndemic has been introduced recently by medical anthropologists to label the synergistic interaction of two or more coexistent diseases and resultant excess burden of disease.

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