Medicalization: Changing contours, characteristics, and contexts

Medical Sociology on the Move: New Directions in Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 195-214

  Conrad, Peter ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6193-3_10     Document Type: Chapter

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