Consuming men’s health: Risk, ritual and ambivalence in men’s lifestyle magazines

Consuming Health: The Commodification of Health Care

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 187-203

  Bunton, Robin ^a   Crawshaw, Paul ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85139701432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203482162-12     Document Type: Chapter

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