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Anthropology & Medicine Volume 15, 2008 - Issue 2: When the Field is a Ward or a Clinic: Hospital Ethnography
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Death dwells in spaces: Bodies in the hospital mortuary

Philomena A. Horsley Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 133-146 | Received 02 Feb 2008, Accepted 27 May 2008, Published online: 02 Jul 2008

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Anna Harris. (2013) Encountering the Familiar Unknown. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 43:3, pages 259-282.
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Jessica Mesman. (2011) Moving in With Care. Space and Culture 15:1, pages 31-43.
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