Personalizing the political: Negotiating feminist, medical, scientific, and commercial discourses surrounding breast cancer

The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-19

  Sherwin, Susan ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84859816019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4477-1_1     Document Type: Chapter

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