Radical remedies: Women, health, and the micropolitics of grassroots organizing in Mexico

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 235-256

  Schneider, Suzanne D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Health care; Mexico; Social movements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEXICO; POLITICS; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEXICO; POLITICS; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 69949102949     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2009.01058.x     Document Type: Article

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