“I can’t ask that!”: Promoting discussion of sexuality and effective health service interactions with older non-heterosexual men

Social Policy Review 19: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 127-150

  Lee, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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