The bittersweet rhetoric of controversiality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century french and english medical literature

Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 141-173

  Salager Meyer, Françoise ^a   Zambrano, Nahirana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

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EID: 84989395535     PISSN: 15665852     EISSN: 15699854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jhp.2.1.07sal     Document Type: Article

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