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Different health professionals and their approaches to risk

Antimicrobial resistance in the risk society – a Danish study on how veterinarians and human medical doctors construct risk through blaming

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Pages 75-92 | Received 07 Sep 2021, Accepted 18 Aug 2023, Published online: 27 Aug 2023

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