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Samrat Chaudhury, Nitin Varma, Between Gods/Goddesses/Demons and 'Science': Perceptions of Health and Medicine among Plantation Labourers in Jalpaiguri District, Bengal, Social Scientist, Vol. 30, No. 5/6 (May - Jun., 2002), pp. 18-38
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