Women as Healers; Women as Clients: The Encounter Between Traditional Arab Women Healers and Their Clients

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Tập 34 Số 3 - Trang 468-499 - 2010
Ariela Popper‐Giveon1, Alean Al‐Krenawi2
1The Open University, Raanana, Israel
2Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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