Where the lay and the technical meet: Using an anthropology of interfaces to explain persistent reproductive health disparities in West Africa
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.03.036
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Reproductive health; West Africa; Gender; Sexuality; Fertility; Health personnel; Ethnography;All these keywords.
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