Liminality: A major category of the experience of cancer illness

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1485-1494

  Little, Miles ^a   Jordens, Christopher ^a   Paul, Kim ^a   Montgomery, Kathleen ^a   Philipson, Bertil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Illness trajectory; Liminality; Narrative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALIENATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; CONTROL; DISORIENTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MANAGEMENT; RECURRENT CANCER; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONAL SPACE;

EID: 0032211330     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00248-2     Document Type: Article

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