Medical Discourse and Time: Authoritative Reconstruction of Present, Future and Past 1

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-183

  Alexias, George ^a  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Discourse; Medicine; Power; Social constructionist; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749136235     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2008.1     Document Type: Article

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