First-Class Health: Amenity Wards, Health Insurance, and Normalizing Health Care Inequalities in Tanzania

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 162-181

  Ellison, James ^a  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amenity wards; Biopolitics; Health insurance; Neoliberalism; Rights

Indexed keywords

AMENITY WARDS; ARTICLE; BIOPOLITICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; NEOLIBERALISM; RIGHTS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA;

AMENITY WARDS; BIOPOLITICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; NEOLIBERALISM; RIGHTS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84901829819     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12086     Document Type: Article

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