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Re/Covered Bodies: The Sites and Stories of Illness in Popular Media

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Wagner, A.T. Re/Covered Bodies: The Sites and Stories of Illness in Popular Media. Journal of Medical Humanities 21, 15–27 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009050614857

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