Foot soldiers of global health: Teaching and preaching AIDS science and modern medicine on the frontline

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-107

  Robins, Steven ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Activists; Global health; HIV AIDS; Mediators; Translation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 61449119099     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740802640990     Document Type: Article

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