Agency and the rhetoric of medicine: Biomedical brain scans and the ontology of fibromyalgia

Technical Communication Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 376-404

  Graham, S Scott ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN SCAN;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 75349093931     PISSN: 10572252     EISSN: 15427625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10572250903149555     Document Type: Article

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