‘I send the wife to the doctor’- Men’s behaviour as health consumers

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 587-595

  Buckley, Joan ^a   Ó Tuama, Seamus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Health consumer; Male consumer behaviour; Masculinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864828876     PISSN: 14706423     EISSN: 14706431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-6431.2010.00908.x     Document Type: Article

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