International efforts spotlight traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine.
Affordable, available, and ever more popular at home and abroad, "alternative" healers are finally getting positive attention from Western practitioners. This rapprochement has enormous implications for public health worldwide.
Fink
Sheri
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International Medical Corps. sherifink@aol.com
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