Commodification of Body Parts: By Medicine or by Media?

Body & Society

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-42

  Seale, Clive ^a   Cavers, Debbie ^b   Dixon Woods, Mary ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247669141     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X06061192     Document Type: Article

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