Resilience or panic? The public and terrorist attack

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9349, 2002, Pages 1901-1902

  Durodié, Bill ^a   Wessely, Simon ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ANXIETY; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NOTE; ORGANIZATION; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TERRORISM; WAR;

EID: 0037079331     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11936-2     Document Type: Note

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