Health, illness and normality: The case of old age

BioSocieties

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 323-341

  Pickard, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health; illness; modernity; normality; old age

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052383041     PISSN: 17458552     EISSN: 17458560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2011.10     Document Type: Article

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