Health as moral performance: Ritual, transgression and taboo

Health

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 435-457

  Williams, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body; Emotions; Health; Moral performance; Ritual; Taboo; Transgression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001114891     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136345939800200401     Document Type: Article

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