Documenting the quick and the dead: A study of suicide case files in a coroner's office

Sociological Review

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 293-308

  Langer, Susanne ^a   Scourfield, Jonathan ^a   Fincham, Ben ^a  

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EID: 42449133255     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00789.x     Document Type: Article

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