Demarcating Medicine's Boundaries: Constituting and Categorizing in the Journals of the American Medical Association

Technical Communication Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 210-229

  Derkatch, Colleen ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

complementary and alternative medicine; constituting and categorizing; medical journal articles; professional discourse; rhetoric of science and medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862337146     PISSN: 10572252     EISSN: 15427625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2012.663744     Document Type: Article

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