Agency without mastery: Chronic pain and posthuman life writing

Biography - An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-98

  Gilmore, Leigh ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84863731398     PISSN: 01624962     EISSN: 15291456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/bio.2012.0011     Document Type: Review

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