‘I think he is immune to all the smoke I gave him’: how women account for the harm of smoking during pregnancy

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 530-546

  Wigginton, Britta ^a   Lafrance, Michelle N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; harm; identity; qualitative; risk; smoking in pregnancy; tobacco

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FETUS MORTALITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOLOGIST; TOBACCO CONSUMPTION;

EID: 85027920997     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698575.2014.951317     Document Type: Article

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