Discourse analysis: what is it and why is it relevant to family practice?

Sara E Shaw1, Julia Bailey

  • 1Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, UK. s.shaw@pcps.ucl.ac.uk

Family Practice
|June 27, 2009
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