More than meets the eye. Feminist poststructuralism as a lens towards understanding obesity

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1187-1194

  Aston, Megan ^a   Price, Sheri ^b,c   Kirk, Sara Frances Louise ^a   Penney, Tarra ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Feminist poststructuralism; Obesity; Qualitative methodology

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NOTE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; OBESITY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; OBESITY; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84858865017     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05866.x     Document Type: Note

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