Interpreting the evidence: Competing paradigms and the emergence of lesbian and gay suicide as a “social fact”

Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 257-272

  Erwin, Kathleen ^a  

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