In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

by Laurie Edwards

  By the Same Author

  Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in

  Your Twenties and Thirties

  Copyright © 2013 by Laurie Edwards

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  eISBN: 978-0-8027-7827-7

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  First U.S. edition 2013

  Electronic edition published in April 2013