Professional constructions of a ‘lay’ illness: ‘Nerves’ in a rural ‘coloured’ community in South Africa
- 31 March 1993
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Social Science & Medicine
- Vol. 36 (5) , 657-663
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(93)90062-9
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