Charity, breast cancer activism and the iconic figure of the BRCA carrier

Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences: Making Biologies and Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-37

  Gibbon, Sahra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79958752746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203945940     Document Type: Chapter

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