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Introduction

Online health communication

Expert and lay dialogic practices

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Article outline
  • 1.Expert and lay discursive practices in health communication
  • 2.Professional expertise vs lay expertise in health communication
  • 3.New perspectives on dialogic practices in online health communication
  • References
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