Book Review: Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman,The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood,trans. R. Gomme. Princeton,NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2009. xii + 305 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13752-0 (hardback);978-0-691-13753-7 (paperback)
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Book Review: Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman,The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood,trans. R. Gomme. Princeton,NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2009. xii + 305 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13752-0 (hardback);978-0-691-13753-7 (paperback)
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