Medicine, gender, and disability: Disabled women's health care encounters

Health Care for Woman International

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 245-262

  Thomas, Carol ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTHORITY; DISABLED PERSON; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTHORITARIANISM; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PREJUDICE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0035322986     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/073993301300357188     Document Type: Article

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