Articulating silences: Experiential and biomedical constructions of hypertension symptomatology

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 458-475

  Schoenberg, Nancy E ^a   Drew, Elaine M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Hypertension; Knowledge; Symptomatology; Treatment decision making

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0036886840     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2002.16.4.458     Document Type: Article

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