The influence of attitudes toward male and female patients on treatment decisions in general practice

Sex Roles

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 613-629

  Di Caccavo, Antonietta ^a   Reid, Fraser ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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