Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 11, Issue 22 , Pages 40-50 , November 2003

“Typhoid Mary” and “HIV Jane”: Responsibility, Agency and Disease Prevention

  • Kit Yee Chan

      Affiliations

    • Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
    • ,
  • Daniel D Reidpath

      Affiliations

    • Senior Research Fellow and Social Epidemiologist, Deakin University, Australia

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Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 11, Issue 22 , Pages 40-50 , November 2003

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