Beliefs about AIDS in five Latin and Anglo-American populations: The role of the biomedical model

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-29

  Baer, Roberta D ^a   Weller, Susan C ^b   Pachter, Lee ^c   Trotter, Robert ^d   De Alba Garcia, Javier Garcia ^e   Glazer, Mark ^f   Klein, Robert ^g   Lockaby, Tracey ^a   Nichols, Janice ^a   Parrish, Roger ^a   Randall, Bruce ^a   Reid, Jeanette ^a   Morfit, Susan W ^a   Van Morfit, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^g Med Entomol Res Training Unit CDC   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICINE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 13044264472     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13648470.1999.9964572     Document Type: Article

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