Producing Contaminated Citizens: Toward a Nature-Society Geography of Health and Well-Being

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1165-1172

  Sultana, Farhana ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arsenic; health; nature society; stigma; well being

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POISONING; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER POLLUTION;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 84864557355     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.671127     Document Type: Article

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