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Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
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Part one: Patterns of health and disease among the Waorani Indians of Eastern Ecuador

James W. Larrick Medical Scientist Training Program in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke Medical Center
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James A. Yost
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Jon Kaplan Associated with the Research Service, U. S. Veterans Administration Medical Center; Associated with Affiliated Hospitals, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Garland King Completing medical school, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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John Mayhall Dental anthropologist on the faculty of the School of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Pages 147-189 | Published online: 12 May 2010

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