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ARTICLES

REVALORIZING FEMININE WAYS OF KNOWING

The challenge to biomedical epistemology in an online mothers’ health community

Pages 1352-1372 | Received 26 Apr 2011, Accepted 03 Nov 2011, Published online: 30 Nov 2011

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