The biopolitics of chronic illness: Biology, power and personhood

New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions: Assaults on the Lifeworld

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 205-224

  Williams, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230297432_11     Document Type: Chapter

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