Identifying delusional discourse: Issues of rationality, reality and power

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 661-678

  Palmer, Derrol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical sociology; Delusions; Ethnomethodology; Power; Social constructionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034257439     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.00225     Document Type: Article

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