Evidence-based advocacy and the reconfiguration of rights language in safe motherhood discourse

Assembling Health Rights in Global Context: Genealogies and Anthropologies

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 149-168

  Storeng, Katerini T ^a,b   Béhague, Dominique P ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84901843023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203758373     Document Type: Chapter

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