Medical sovereignty in Eritrea: Reducing maternal mortality and challenging global health humanitarianism in Africa.
This article examines how Eritrea's realization of Millennium Development Goal 5 (the reduction of maternal mortality) reveals the complex workings of medical sovereignty in sub‐Saharan Africa. Through the case study of Eritrea, I demonstrate how postcolonial African countries might approach structu...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 393 - 407 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2024
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