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Research ArticleII. Extreme Poverty and Social Suffering
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How Institutions Deprive: Ethnography, Social Work, and Interventionist Ethics Among the Hypermarginalized

Megan Comfort, Andrea M. Lopez, Christina Powers, Alex H. Kral, Jennifer Lorvick
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (1) 100-119; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.06
Megan Comfort
aSenior research sociologist, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
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Andrea M. Lopez
bResearch medical anthropologist, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
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Christina Powers
cLicensed clinical social worker, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
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Alex H. Kral
dSenior research epidemiologist, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
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Jennifer Lorvick
eSenior public health scientist, Behavioral and Urban Health Program at RTI International
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