Looking at and talking about genitalia: Understanding where physicians and patients get their ideas about what's normal and what isn't

Medical Humanities

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 68-69

  Karkazis, Katrina ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PATIENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 78650343772     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2010.006288     Document Type: Article

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