Infinitesimal risk as public health crisis: News media coverage of a doctor-patient HIV contact tracing investigation
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Social Science & Medicine
- Vol. 43 (12) , 1685-1695
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(95)00402-5
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