Anti-aging medicine: A patient/practitioner movement to redefine aging

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 643-653

  Mykytyn, Courtney Everts ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Anti aging medicine; Social movements; USA

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PRASTERONE;

AGING; HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

AGING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FRUSTRATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MIGRATION; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; DRUG INDUSTRY; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MARKETING; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; REJUVENATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29144477653     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.06.021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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