The Concepts of Health and Illness

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 537-542

  Nordenfelt, Lennart Y ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

'Medicine in Society'; Concept of health and thinking in medicine; Health and culture relativism; Health and illness as gender dependent notions; Health and illness concepts

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953455799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch73     Document Type: Chapter

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