Taking horse to the pond: Applying Bourdieu’s concepts in undergraduate student research

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Avicenna J Med 2019; 9(01): 35-36
DOI: 10.4103/AJM.AJM_127_18

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

V Dinesh Kumar

Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India

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