Toxic emissions: The role of semen in GWS narratives

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 251-258

  Kilshaw, Susie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; BURNING SENSATION; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALE; MASCULINITY; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; SPERM; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERAN;

EID: 36749066683     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: 14692910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470701694578     Document Type: Article

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