My health, my responsibility? Complementary medicine and self (health) care

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 515-530

  Broom, Alex ^a   Meurk, Carla ^a   Adams, Jon ^b   Sibbritt, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

complementary and alternative medicine; gender; qualitative interviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912058348     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: 17412978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1440783312467098     Document Type: Article

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