Over-the-counter medicines: Professional expertise and consumer discourses

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 913-928

  Stevenson, Fiona A ^a   Leontowitsch, Miranda ^b   Duggan, Catherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer discourses; Over the counter medicines; Pharmacy; Professional expertise

Indexed keywords

NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; COUNSELING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; PHARMACIST; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RECORDING; UNITED KINGDOM;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COUNSELING; EDUCATION, PHARMACY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PHARMACISTS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 50849083504     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01108.x     Document Type: Article

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