Purity and passion: Risk and morality in latina immigrants' and physicians' beliefs about cervical cancer

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 337-362

  Martinez, Rebecca G ^a   Chavez, Leo R ^a   Hubbell, F Allan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care

^c Center for Health Policy and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural beliefs and cervical cancer; Mexican immigrants and cancer beliefs; Salvadoran immigrants and cancer beliefs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EL SALVADOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORALITY; PHYSICIAN; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CALIFORNIA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EL SALVADOR; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PHYSICIANS; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031160162     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.1997.9966145     Document Type: Article

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