Reflecting on death: The emotionality of the research encounter

Mortality

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-86

  Woodthorpe, Kate ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 62149137305     PISSN: 13576275     EISSN: 14699885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576270802591228     Document Type: Article

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