Medicine and the media: Science, politics, and headlines in the home birth war

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7744, 2010, Pages 455-

  Sweet, Melissa ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCIENCE; WAR;

EID: 77649200359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c826     Document Type: Article

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