Culture and illness representation

The Self-Regulation of Health and Illness Behaviour

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 242-254

  Baumann, Linda Ciofu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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