Native medical practitioners, temporality, and nascent biomedical citizenship in the New Hebrides

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 33, Issue , 2010, Pages 57-80

  Widmer, Alexandra ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical citizenship; Colonial governance; Indigenous biomedical practitioners; New Hebrides Vanuatu; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015449523     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2010.01066.x     Document Type: Article

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