The Separate Spheres of Online Health: Gender, Parenting, and Online Health Information Searching in the Information Age

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1324-1350

  Stern, Michael J ^a   Cotten, Shelia R ^b   Drentea, Patricia ^b  

^a Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; health; Internet; parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866758718     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X11425459     Document Type: Article

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