"If you don't believe it, it won't help you": use of bush medicine in treating cancer among Aboriginal people in Western Australia.

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Published in J Ethnobiol Ethnomed on June 23, 2010

Authors

Shaouli Shahid1, Ryan Bleam, Dawn Bessarab, Sandra C Thompson

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for International Health, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia. s.shahid@curtin.edu.au

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