Endangered species
Subtitle: health, illness, and death among Madagascar's people of the forest
By: Janice Harper.
Contributors: Harper, Janice, 1958-
Series: Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Anthropology -- Madagascar.; Medicine, Traditional -- Madagascar.; Social Change -- Madagascar.; Sociology, Medical -- Madagascar.; Medical anthropology -- Madagascar.; Traditional medicine -- Madagascar.; Tanala (Malagasy people) -- Medicine.; Betsileo (Malagasy people) -- Medicine.; Tanala (Malagasy people) -- Health and hygiene.; Betsileo (Malagasy people) -- Health and hygiene.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Michigan State University, 1999) under the title: The political ecology of health and disease among forest farmers of southeastern Madagascar.