Richard POTTIER : Study on the Lao health system and its potential for development Richard Pottier explains why he chose to study the Lao ethnicity and that country’s health system. He then talks about this country’s double structure: governmental on the one hand, and the villager aspect on the other. He also highlights the interdependence between standard of living and health. Extract from the folder : "Anthropology of illness and myth in Laos and in South-East Asia" Health, medical anthropology -- Medical ethnology --

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