Hospital domestics: Care work in a Kenyan Hospital

Space and Culture

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-30

  Brown, Hannah ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

care; familial; heterotopia; hospital ethnography; Kenya; Luo; medical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858186797     PISSN: 12063312     EISSN: 15528308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1206331211426056     Document Type: Article

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