Embodiment and Meaning: Understanding Chronic Pelvic Pain

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 41-60

  Grace, Victoria M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0345547693     PISSN: 13558250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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