Sleep, signification and the abstract body of allopathic medicine

Body and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 93-114

  Wolf Meyer, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Disability studies; Medicine; Normalcy; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 57449118095     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X08096897     Document Type: Article

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