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Q J Med 2003; 96: 875-876
© 2003 Association of Physicians

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Folk illness and medical models

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Sometimes an author manages to capture the essence of an article with such an arresting name that you feel compelled to read it. A few years ago I was scanning a list of references when I came across a title so striking that I went to a library at once, to read through the article in question and see if it lived up to its promise. It was called: ‘Hyper-Tension: a folk illness with a medical name’.1 The author of the paper was the American social anthropologist Dan Blumhagen.

I was not disappointed. I now regard it as one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Launer


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