'Our diagnoses, our selves': The rise of the technoscientific illness identity

Sociology Compass

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 463-477

  Sulik, Gayle A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00374.x     Document Type: Review

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