Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine
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- 24 October 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 3 (10) , e449
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030449
Abstract
Structural violence refers to the social structures that put people in harm's way. Farmer and colleagues describe the impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda.Keywords
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