Fox, N.J.; Ward, K.J.; O'Rourke, A.J. - In: Social Science & Medicine 60 (2005) 6, pp. 1299-1309
Do 'informed' or 'expert' patients challenge dominant traditions in biomedicine or simply adopt these as conventional ways of thinking about body shape and size, illness and health? This paper examines this question in relation to the use of the weight-loss drug Xenical by participants in an...