From bodies to lives, complainers to consumers: Measuring menstrual excess
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.07.005
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- Dumit, Joseph, 2006. "Illnesses you have to fight to get: Facts as forces in uncertain, emergent illnesses," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 62(3), pages 577-590, February.
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- Sweet, Paige L., 2014. "‘Every bone of my body:’ Domestic violence and the diagnostic body," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 44-52.
- Whooley, Owen, 2016. "Measuring mental disorders: The failed commensuration project of DSM-5," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 166(C), pages 33-40.
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USA; Menstruation; Menorrhagia; Measurement; Diagnosis; Biomedicalization;Statistics
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