Explaining health and illness: lay perceptions on current and future health, the causes of illness, and the nature of recovery.

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• Publication year

  1994

• Venue

  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

• Publication date

  1994-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/0277-9536(94)90026-4PMID 7973869
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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