Helping people change: Promoting politicised practice in the health care professions

Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 192-218

  Aphramor, Lucy ^a   Gingras, Jacqui ^b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 79951949976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230304239     Document Type: Chapter

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