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Amina Mire
Back to facultyAssociate ProfessorAnthropology, Department of Sociology andCarleton University
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'Skin Trade': Genealogy of Anti-ageing 'Whiteness Therapy' in Colonial Medicine.
Medicine studies · 2014 · first author
1 publications.
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'Skin Trade': Genealogy of Anti-ageing 'Whiteness Therapy' in Colonial Medicine.
Mire A
Medicine studies2014First author
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