Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment. By J.Sterne, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. pp. 304. $102.95 (cloth); $27.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1478015086

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Diminished faculties: A political phenomenology of impairment. By J.Sterne, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2022. pp. 304. $102.95 (cloth); $27.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐1478015086. / Szarota, Magda.
In: Sociology of Health and Illness, Vol. 45, No. 8, 08.11.2023, p. 1769-1770.

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