The rhetoric and reality of psychosocial theories of health. A challenge to biomedicine?

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-29

  Ogden, Jane ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Body boundaries; Psychosocial theories; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030884001     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135910539700200103     Document Type: Article

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