Being 'with the medical research council': Infant care and the social meanings of cohort membership in Gambia's plural therapeutic landscapes

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 77-98

  Leach, Melissa ^a,b   Fairhead, James ^b  

^a Institute of Development Studies IDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ESRC   (United Kingdom)

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