What Is Life Worth? Exploring Biomedical Interventions, Survival, and the Politics of Life

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 453-469

  Marsland, Rebecca ^a   Prince, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; POLITICS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; POLITICS; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 84871254454     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12001     Document Type: Article

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