Deconstructing behavioural classifications: Tobacco control, 'professional vision' and the tobacco user as a site of governmental intervention

Critical Public Health

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-140

  Mair, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health and government; Models of the tobacco user; The new public health

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBESITY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79961087111     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2010.529423     Document Type: Article

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