The neurologist
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چکیده
This one-hundred-word vignette on insomnia, humor, inadvertence, and affect is written for a special section of “hundreds” Kathleen Stewart.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anthropology and humanism
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1548-1409', '1559-9167']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12471