The ill-health assemblage: Beyond the body-with-organs

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 359-371

  Fox, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Biomedicine; Body without organs; Deleuze and Guattari; Ill health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857824377     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2011.20.4.359     Document Type: Review

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