Cancer as a contested illness: Seeking help amid treatment

Contesting Illness: Process and Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 142-157

  Purkis, Mary Ellen ^a   Van Mossel, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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