Compliance as strategy: The importance of personalised relations in obstetric practice

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 10 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 2053-2069

  Tanassi, Lucia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Ethnography; Hospital; Italy; Maternal health; Obstetrics

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE;

BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); GYNECOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SAFETY;

EID: 4444264342     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.03.009     Document Type: Article

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