Naming and framing: the social construction of diagnosis and illness.

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  1995

• Venue

  Journal of Health and Social Behavior

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  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.2307/2626956PMID 7560848
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