Documentary disorders: Managing medical multiplicity in Maputo, Mozambique

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 545-561

  Mckay, Ramah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical governance; Bureaucracy; Documents; Mozambique; Pluralism and multiplicity; Transnational governmentality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863991073     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01380.x     Document Type: Article

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