My self as an other: On autoimmunity and "other" paradoxes

Medical Humanities

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-11

  Cohen, Ed ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADDISON DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CROHN DISEASE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PHILOSOPHY; POLYMYOSITIS; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UVEITIS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 3042813176     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2004.000162     Document Type: Article

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