Connecting Pills and People: An Ethnography of the Pharmaceutical Nexus in Odisha, India

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 182-200

  Seeberg, Jens ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

India; Pharmaceutical industry; Private health care sector; Private practitioners; Retail pharmacies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG INDUSTRY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INDIA; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHARMACY; PRIVATE PRACTICE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG INDUSTRY; HUMANS; INDIA; PHARMACIES; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PRIVATE SECTOR;

EID: 84862261887     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2012.01200.x     Document Type: Article

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