Pink ribbons and public private parts: On not imagining ovarian cancer

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 475-501

  Holmes, Martha Stoddard ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; OVARY TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; NARRATION; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548183541     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2007.0005     Document Type: Review

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