Odds and ends: Risk, mortality, and the politics of contingency

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 283-312

  Malaby, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency; Greece; Mortality; Risk

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK;

EID: 0037854512     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021204803969     Document Type: Article

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