‘I could not be idle any longer’: buruli ulcer treatment assemblages in rural Ghana

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2204-2220

  Hausermann, Heidi Eileen ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

assemblage; Buruli ulcer; Ghana; political ecology; state theory

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TREATMENT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; RURAL AREA; SKIN DISORDER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

GHANA;

MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS;

EID: 84946924841     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15599289     Document Type: Article

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