Understanding the routinised inclusion of race, socioeconomic status and sex in epidemiology: The utility of concepts from technoscience studies

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 129-150

  Shim, Janet K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black box; Boundary object; Chronic disease; Epidemiology; Race; Sex gender; Socioeconomic status; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MODEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 0036489093     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.00288     Document Type: Article

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