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Ideology and disease identity: the politics of rickets, 1929–1982

How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, curable non-infectious disease came to have enormous political significance, first as a symbol of s...

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Autor principal: Bivins, Roberta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4033029/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23918817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2013-010400