The commodification of misery: Markets for healing, markets for sickness

African Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages 201-227

  Beckmann, Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84947940146     PISSN: 15681777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/9789004201286_009     Document Type: Article

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