Taking time to smell the roses: Accounts of people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and their struggle for legitimisation

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-215

  Cohn, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICINE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REVIEW;

EID: 0032806970     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.1999.9964583     Document Type: Review

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