Paradigm shifts in health care: Consumers' personal theories of health

Complementary Health Practice Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-202

  Kleine, Susan Schultz ^a   Hughner, Renée Shaw ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 6444221294     PISSN: 15332101     EISSN: 15523845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153321019900500302     Document Type: Article

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