Framing disease: The avian influenza pandemic in Australia

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-381

  Abeysinghe, Sudeepa ^a   White, Kevin ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; Infectious disease; Media; Risk; Social representations; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551588154     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2010.19.3.369     Document Type: Article

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