Influence of content, events and culture on the public discourse about medical genetics in Switzerland – A quantitative media content analysis
Issue: Vol 16 No. 1 (2019)
Journal: Communication & Medicine
Subject Areas: Healthcare Communication Linguistics
DOI: 10.1558/cam.34832
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Author: Bettina Maria Zimmermann, Steffen Kolb, Fabian Zimmermann, Bernice Simone Elger, David Shaw
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