Marketing health education: advertising margarine and visualising health in Britain from 1964–c.2000

Contemporary British History

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 477-500

  Hand, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

advertising; gender; heart disease; Margarine; visual culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017460305     PISSN: 13619462     EISSN: 17437997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2017.1305898     Document Type: Article

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