Claiming the right to health in Brazilian courts: The exclusion of the already excluded?

Law and Social Inquiry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 825-853

  da Silva, Virgílio Afonso ^a   Terrazas, Fernanda Vargas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 81455142950     PISSN: 08976546     EISSN: 17474469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2011.01252.x     Document Type: Article

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