We had to do what we thought was right at the time: Retrospective discourse on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in the UK

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 369-382

  Davis, Mark ^a   Flowers, Paul ^b   Stephenson, Niamh ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discourse; Pandemic influenza; Public health

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PANDEMIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PANDEMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84897428542     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12056     Document Type: Article

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