The Pain of "Thinking too Much": Dolor de Cerebro and the Embodiment of Social Hardship among Nicaraguan Women

Ethos

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 226-248

  Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central America; Health; Stress; Suffering; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955627085     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: 15481352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1352.2011.01186.x     Document Type: Article

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