The corpse in contemporary culture: Identifying, transacting, and recoding the dead body in the twenty-first century

Mortality

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-104

  Foltyn, Jacque Lynn ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 46749142161     PISSN: 13576275     EISSN: 14699885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576270801954351     Document Type: Editorial

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