Medical modelling of obesity: a transition from action to experience in a 20th century American medical textbook
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Sociology of Health & Illness
- Vol. 24 (2) , 151-177
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.00289
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