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Sheri Fink, MD, PhD

Sheri Fink has worked in the Balkans, the northern Caucasus region, Central Asia, and southern Africa with International Medical Corps, a nongovernmental organization that provides medical aid to populations in crisis. Her writing on health, medicine, and science has been published in Discover magazine, MAMM magazine, several newspapers, and numerous scientific journals. Her book on a Bosnian war hospital will be published by PublicAffairs in spring 2003.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Sheri Fink (e-mail: sherifink{at}aol.com).

Affordable, available, and ever more popular at home and abroad, "alternative" healers are finally getting positive attention from Western practitioners. This rapprochement has enormous implications for public health worldwide.

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