Governing the healthy male citizen: men, masculinity and popular health in Men's Health magazine.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Social Science & Medicine (1967)

• Publication date

  2007-10-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2007.05.026PMID 17628269
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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