Doubles everywhere: Literary contributions to the study of the bodily self

Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-115

  Dieguez, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1159/000345912     Document Type: Chapter

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