notion of “social support” in two ways - in relation to culture (Samoan versus Euro-American) and socioeconomic status.
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Book title: Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems.
Contributors: James M. Wilce Jr - Editor.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2003.
Page number: 186.
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