State-of-the-art or the art of medicine? Transnational mobility and perceptions of multiple biomedicines among Nigerian physicians in the U.S.Footnote^*

* This article is planned to be part of the special issue ‘Mobility and (dis)connectivity in the global health enterprise’, guest edited by Dominik Mattes and Hansjörg Dilger.

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