Mirage of health in the Era of biomedicalization: Evaluating change in the threshold of illness, 1972-1996

Social Forces

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2155-2182

  Schnittker, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 73449085171     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0218     Document Type: Article

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