Prostates and profits: The social construction of benign prostatic hyperplasia in American men

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-22

  McDade, Thomas ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical medical anthropology; Cultural construction of disease; Overtreatment; Pharmaceutical industry; Prostate; Urology

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UROLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; DRUG INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; PREVALENCE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; UROLOGY;

EID: 0030140406     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.1996.9966125     Document Type: Article

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