How “normal” is the world we live in? Jon Ronson’s journey through some unexpected areas of modern psychiatry

• Authors: Petra Pappová
• Languages of publication: EN
• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 584-588

Dates

published

2014-10-01

online

2014-10-02

Contributors

author

Petra Pappová

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-014-0251-8