Mining for conflict and staking claims: Contested illness at the tar creek superfund site

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 558-579

  Shriver, Thomas E ^a   Cable, Sherry ^b   Kennedy, Dennis ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 54749128690     PISSN: 00380245     EISSN: 1475682X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.2008.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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