Embodying the Patient: Records and Bodies in Early 20th-century US Medical Practice

Body & Society

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 13-41

  Berg, Marc ^a   Harterink, Paul ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 17644363492     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X04042931     Document Type: Article

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