Does gender matter? An analysis of men's and women's accounts of responding to symptoms of lung cancer
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.09.015
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United Kingdom; Help-seeking; Gender comparative; Gender identities; Men and masculinities; Consulting; Lung cancer; Qualitative; Narrative analysis;All these keywords.
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