How medical specialists appraise three controversial health innovations: Scientific, clinical and social arguments

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-139

  Lehoux, Pascale ^a   Denis, Jean Louis ^a   Rock, Melanie ^b   Hivon, Myriam ^a   Tailliez, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive therapy; Medical controversies; Medical specialists; Prenatal screening for Down's syndrome; Prostate specific antigen screening

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DOWN SYNDROME; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; PERCEPTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; DOWN SYNDROME; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICINE; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREJUDICE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUEBEC; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955896432     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01192.x     Document Type: Article

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