'Happy Meals' in the Starship Enterprise: Interpreting a moral geography of health care consumption

Health and Place

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 81-93

  Kearns, Robin A ^a   Barnett, J Ross ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Children's hospitals; Consumption; Discourse; Food; Metaphor; Symbol

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MARKETING; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE REFORM;

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD CARE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MARKETING; MORALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033996859     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(00)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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