Commentary: Towards a clinical ethnography

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 603-606

  Gordon, Richard A ^a  

^a BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; EATING DISORDER; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; HUNGER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; CULTURE; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEVISION;

EID: 17644426348     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-004-1070-x     Document Type: Note

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