Managing biomedical uncertainty: The technoscientific illness identity

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1059-1076

  Sulik, Gayle A ^a  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical uncertainty; Biomedicalisation; Breast cancer; Illness identity; Technoscientific identity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 70350503361     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01183.x     Document Type: Article

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