Embodied risk: My body, myself?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 437-444

  Kavanagh, Anne M ^a   Broom, Dorothy H ^b  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b Australian National University College of Health and Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abnormal Pap smear; Corporeal risk; Qualitative study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES; UTERINE CERVICAL DYSPLASIA; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 0032007542     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00188-3     Document Type: Article

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