Health and medicine in the information age: Castells, informational capitalism and the network society

Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 167-192

  Williams, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84881185380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203122686     Document Type: Chapter

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