Triangulating health: Toward a practice of a political ecology of health

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-64

  Jackson, Paul ^a   Neely, Abigail H ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

health; history of medicine; medical anthropology; methods; political ecology; social reproduction; STS

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMINISM; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; MARXISM; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MEDICINE; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84922597814     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: 14770288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132513518832     Document Type: Article

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