Narrating the self-injured body

Medical Humanities

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 111-116

  Chandler, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOMUTILATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SCAR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CICATRIX; COMMUNICATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911456530     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2013-010488     Document Type: Article

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