East Meets West - But Bridging Concepts Are Still Lacking! Time for New Steps in Medical Anthropology.

Forsch Komplementmed

Chair for Theory of Medicine, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine, Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Herdecke, Germany.

Published: June 2016

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