'A man can be destroyed but not defeated': Ernest Hemingway's near-death experience and declining health

Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue , 2010, Pages 174-206

  Dieguez, Sebastian ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ANALGESIA; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; HEAD INJURY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUICIDE;

EID: 77952783632     PISSN: 16604431     EISSN: 16622804     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000311201     Document Type: Review

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