Attitudes Toward Placentophagy: A Brief Report

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 113-119

  Cremers, Gwendolyn E ^a   Low, Kathryn Graff ^a  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EATING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; EATING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTURITION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894241140     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2013.798325     Document Type: Article

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