Medicine as grooming behavior: Potlatch of care and distributive justice

Health

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 237-260

  Barilan, Y Michael ^a,b,c,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (Israel)

^c Community Hospital ^*  (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distributive justice in health; Enhancement medicine; Grooming behavior; Medicalization; Medicine; Regimens of health

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346048150     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136345930200600206     Document Type: Article

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