‘Not a film about my slackness’: Making sense of medically unexplained illness in youth using collaborative visual methods
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عنوان ژورنال: Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1363-4593,1461-7196
DOI: 10.1177/1363459318785696