"Under erasure": The absent Ill body in doctor-patient dialogue

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1402-1424

  Defenbaugh, Nicole L ^a  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Chronic illness; Erasure; IBD; Medical binary

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849101121     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408322579     Document Type: Article

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