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Chapter 15 - The Sociology of Mental Health

from Part IV - Specialty Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2017

By
Teresa L. Scheid
Edited by
Kathleen Odell Korgen
Kathleen Odell Korgen
Affiliation:
William Paterson University, New Jersey
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology
Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies
 , pp. 148 - 155
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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