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When the field is a ward or a clinic: Hospital ethnography

Debbi Long Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Cynthia Hunter School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Sjaak van der Geest Medical Anthropology and Sociology Unit, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pages 71-78 | Received 02 Feb 2008, Accepted 27 May 2008, Published online: 01 Jul 2008

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