Recovering a Fecal Habitus: Analyzing Heroin Users' Toilet Talk

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 95-108

  Pickering, Lucy ^a   Neale, Joanne ^b   Nettleton, Sarah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; constipation; defecation; heroin; recovery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84874149795     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2012.694929     Document Type: Article

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