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Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
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Precipitating Pharmakologies and Capital Entrapments: Narcolepsy and the Strange Cases of Provigil and Xyrem

Matthew Wolf-Meyer Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CAView further author information
Pages 11-30 | Published online: 30 Jan 2009

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