Gender, embodiment, and disease: Environmental breast cancer activists' challenges to science, the biomedical model, and policy

Science as Culture

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 563-586

  Zavestoski, Stephen ^a   McCormick, Sabrina ^b   Brown, Phil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33646564448     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950543042000311869     Document Type: Article

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