Physician heal thyself', Part 2: Debating clinicians bodyweight clinicians bodyweight

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-50

  Monaghan, Lee F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accounts; Clinicians; Fatness; Obesity; The Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149196763     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2008.20     Document Type: Article

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