Women living with environmental illness

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 371-383

  Chircop, Andrea ^a   Keddy, Barbara ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; FEMINISM; INTERVIEW; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0141610815     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330390212162     Document Type: Article

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