Struggling to gain meaning: Living with the uncertainty of breast cancer

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 59-76

  Nelson, Jenenne P ^a  

^a Beth El Coll Nursing and Hlth Sci   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Hermeneutic phenomenology; Human experience; Lived experience; Photographic hermeneutics; Survival; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CONTROL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0030094886     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-199603000-00007     Document Type: Article

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