Imaging toxins

Environmental Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 191-210

  Peeples, Jennifer ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent Orange; Images; Rhetoric; Risk; Toxins; Visual narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878296543     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2013.775172     Document Type: Review

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