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War Machine and Global Health

War Machine and Global Health

The War Machine and Global Health

Merrill Singer

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2010
Materia
Antropología
ISBN:
9780759111905

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This book of essays by medical anthropologists and other health social scientists examines the full measure of the disastrous global health effects of war in the contemporary world. It provides a political economic framework for assessing the war machine.

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