'You don't give me flowers anymore': An analysis of gift-giving to medical and psychiatric inpatients

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 136-140

  Wiener, A ^a   Wessely, S ^b   Lewis, G ^c  

^a W Herts Community Health NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; RELATIVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032958327     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050124     Document Type: Article

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