Williams, Simon J.; Bury, Michael R. - In: Social Science & Medicine 29 (1989) 5, pp. 609-616
Chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD) is a major, though neglected, medical and social problem in the United Kingdom today. Dyspnoea is one of the most distressing and disabling symptoms of COAD, which is itself the largest single cause of absence from work in the United Kingdom. 92...