Domesticating insurance, financializing family lives: the case of private health insurance for children in Finland.
This article explores the domestication of a financial instrument that is much used in contemporary Finland, but that most of its users do not primarily think about in terms of being a financial instrument: the private health insurance for children. In Finland, all children are covered by social ins...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 685 - 712 |
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