Operating at the Edge of Il/legality: Systemic Corruption in Mexican Health Care.
Through a series of ethnographic vignettes, this article examines how providers contribute to corruption in Mexican health care, how providers are themselves subjected to logics of corruption, and the relationship between patients' and providers' vulnerability within contexts of resource scarcity. D...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 46 - 65 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2021
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