Introduction: Medical migrations

Body and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 1-30

  Roberts, Elizabeth F S ^a   Scheper Hughes, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 79958703425     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X11400925     Document Type: Editorial

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