Edging embodiment and embodying categories: Reading bodies marked with myalgic encephalomyelitis as a contested illness

Contesting Illness: Process and Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 158-180

  Moss, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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