Accounting for risk and responsibility associated with smoking among mothers of children with respiratory illness

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-121

  Coxhead, Lauren ^a   Rhodes, Tim ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounts; Motherhood; Respiratory illness; Responsibility; Risk; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DECISION MAKING; DENIAL; FEMALE; GUILT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTERVIEW; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GUILT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LONDON; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; POVERTY AREAS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 33644667364     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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