Is 'modern culture' bad for our wellbeing? Views from 'elite' and 'excluded' Scotland

Wellbeing and Place

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 123-140

  Carlisle, Sandra ^a   Hanlon, Phil ^e   Reilly, David ^a,b,c,d   Lyon, Andrew ^a,e,f   Henderson, Gregor ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Integrative Care   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Harvard Medical School ^*

^f AdHom   (United Kingdom)

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