Is it me or my brain? Depression and neuroscientific facts

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 35-47

  Durait, Joseph ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain images; Cultural anthropology; Depression; Experience; Pet scans; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449119465     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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