When death isn't dead: Implicit social rationing during resuscitative efforts

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-75

  Timmermans, Stefan ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.1999.tb00489.x     Document Type: Article

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