‘There are limits on what you can do’: Biographical reconstruction by those bereaved by alcohol-related deaths

Drinking Dilemmas: Space, Culture and Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 187-204

  Valentine, Christine ^a   Templeton, Lorna ^a   Velleman, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315679914-12     Document Type: Chapter

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