Anchoring the head: The disappearing (biological) body

Gender, Health and Healing: The Public/Private Divide

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 34-48

  Birke, Lynda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203996751-9     Document Type: Chapter

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