The biopolitics of global health: Life and death in neoliberal time

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 9-27

  Kenny, Katherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

biopolitics; global health; governmentality; neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924873905     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: 17412978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1440783314562313     Document Type: Article

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