Health information politics: Reconsidering the democratic ideal of the Web as a source of medical knowledge

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Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Mager, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 84867625965     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v17i10.3895     Document Type: Article

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