Confessions of the flesh and biopedagogies: Discursive constructions of obesity on Nip/Tuck

Medical Humanities

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 76-79

  Rail, G ^a   Lafrance, M ^b  

^a Simone DeBeauvoir Institute   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

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EID: 70849130156     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2009.001610     Document Type: Article

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