Vaccine-Hesitant Justifications: “Too Many, Too Soon,” Narrative Persuasion, and the Conflation of Expertise

Global Qualitative Nursing Research

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Rodriguez, Nathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; communication; descriptive methods; discourse analysis; grounded theory; Internet; lay concepts and practices; online research; qualitative analysis; stories storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044973302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23333936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2333393616663304     Document Type: Article

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