Taking chances: The experience of gambling loss

Ethnography

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 459-474

  Avery, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnographic methods; Mental illness; Pathological gambling; Poker; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449876019     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138109346981     Document Type: Article

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