Ramdas, Sahienshadebie - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 6, pp. 1097-1105
Why are potentially harmful, non-biomedical chemical substances, such as battery acid, chlorine, herbicides, and insecticides, used in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL)? What drives people to use these products as medicine? This article is about perceptions of CL, and the quest for a...