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Crossing Bodily, Social, and Intimate Boundaries: How Class, Ethnic, and Gender Differences Are Reproduced in Medical Training in Mexico.

Bodies are useful instruments for understanding the reproduction of inequalities. In this article, we investigate why and how bodily, social, intimate, and physical boundaries are crossed and what this can tell us about individual and social bodies. We unpack how seeing and being seen, touching and...

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Published in:American Anthropologist Vol. 121; no. 1; pp. 113 - 126
Main Authors: Smith‐Oka, Vania, Marshalla, Megan K.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2019
Subjects:
Mexico
Social boundaries
Equality
Ethnographic analysis
Hospitals
Medical education
Interns (Medicine)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost