After death/after-'life': The social history of medicine in post-postmodernity

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 441-464

  Cooter, Roger ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Foucault; Historiography

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249092447     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkm074     Document Type: Article

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