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Anorexia through creative metaphors: women pathographers and graphic medicine

Sathyaraj VenkatesanDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, IndiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2138-1263View further author information
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Anu Mary PeterDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, IndiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 429-442 | Received 23 Feb 2019, Accepted 09 Aug 2019, Published online: 28 Aug 2019

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