Practitioners' Views About Equity Within Prenatal Services

Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-80

  Alderson, Priscilla ^a,c   Williams, Clare ^b,d   Farsides, Bobbie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d James Clerk Maxwell Building   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ethics; Inequalities; Prenatal screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542351055     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038504039361     Document Type: Article

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