Accounts of health and illness: Dilemmas and representations

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 220-240

  Radley, Alan ^a   Billig, Michael ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounts; Health beliefs; Ideology; Social representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030535044     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10934984     Document Type: Article

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