Abandoning biomedicine for alternate therapies: Oncology patients' stories

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 36-45

  Montbriand, Muriel J ^a  

^a ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Alternate therapies; Oncology

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CANCER PATIENT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGER; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYSTICISM; NEOPLASMS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT DROPOUTS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0031891078     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-199802000-00005     Document Type: Article

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