Infrastructural Instability, Value, and Laboratory Work in a Public Hospital in Sierra Leone

This research article examines the relationship between infrastructural instability and laboratory work in a public referral hospital in Sierra Leone. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted inside the hospital’s wards and clinical laboratory, I show how attending to infrastructure and materiali...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eva Vernooij
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2021-06-01
Series:Medicine Anthropology Theory
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Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5167