"They don't know anything": How medical authority constructs perceptions of reproductive risk among low-income mothers in Mexico

Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 103-121

  Smith Oka, Vania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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