Communicability, racial discourse, and disease

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2005, Pages 269-291

  Briggs, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Communicative inequalities; Genomics; Health disparities; Language ideologies; Medicine and public health

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENOME; LANGUAGE; RACE;

EID: 27844576655     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120618     Document Type: Review

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