Resisting medications: Moral discourses and performances in illness narratives

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 449-464

  Murdoch, Jamie ^a   Salter, Charlotte ^a   Cross, Jane ^a   Smith, Jane ^a   Poland, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Discourse; Medications; Narrative; Performance

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT REFUSAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875667944     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01499.x     Document Type: Article

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