Toxin or medicine? Explanatory models of radon in Montana health mines

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-21

  Erickson, Barbra E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental toxins; Explanatory models; Health care choices; Radon

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTANA; RADON;

EID: 33847329172     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2007.21.1.1     Document Type: Article

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