Symptom: Subjectivities, social ills, technologies

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2009, Pages 267-288

  Biehl, João ^a   Moran Thomas, Amy ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnographic theory; Lived experience; Medical science and capitalism

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CAPITALISM; CLASS; COMMODITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70350449618     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164420     Document Type: Article

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