Is Fish Health Food or Poison? Farmed Fish and the Material Production of Un/Healthy Nature

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Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 413-434

  Mansfield, Becky ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Capitalist crisis; Health and environment; Materiality; Production of nature

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; INTENSIVE CULTURE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEAFOOD;

EID: 79951820678     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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