Social construction of pain and aging: Individual artfulness within interpretive structures

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 251-273

  Encandela, John A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0031514255     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.1997.20.3.251     Document Type: Article

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