Popular representations of race: The news coverage of BiDil

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 485-490

  Caulfield, Timothy ^a,b,c   Harry, Simrat ^c  

^a ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^b School of Nursing and Mailman

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE HYDRALAZINE COMBINATION; ISOSORBIDE-HYDRALAZINE COMBINATION; VASODILATOR AGENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG COMBINATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYDRALAZINE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MASS MEDIA; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 50249183470     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: 1748720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.295.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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