The judicialization of biopolitics: Claiming the right to pharmaceuticals in Brazilian courts

American Ethnologist

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 419-436

  Biehl, João ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology of law and medicine; Biopolitical theory; Brazil; Judicialization of politics; Para infrastructures; Patient citizen consumers; Pharmaceuticalization; Right to health litigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881510299     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12030     Document Type: Article

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