Motivation, justification, normalization: Talk strategies used by Canadian medical tourists regarding their choices to go abroad for hip and knee surgeries
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.047
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Canada; Medical tourism; Knee replacement; Hip replacement; Hip resurfacing;All these keywords.
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