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Review
. 2002 Jul 27;325(7357):210-3.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7357.210.

Anthropology in health research: from qualitative methods to multidisciplinarity

Helen Lambert  1 , Christopher McKevitt
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Review

Anthropology in health research: from qualitative methods to multidisciplinarity

Helen Lambert et al. BMJ. .
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Anthropology has its roots in a Western fascination with the “exotic,” in trying to make the strange comprehensible; anthropologists working in health today question the familiar
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