Fat as disability: The case of the Jews

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 46-60

  Gilman, Sander L ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JEW; LIFESTYLE; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISABLED PERSONS; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JEWS; JUDAISM; LIFE STYLE; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); OBESITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 4143100655     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2004.0003     Document Type: Review

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