Please don't call me 'dear': Older women's narratives of health care

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 269-276

  Feldman, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health; Narrative; Professional practice; Stereotypes; Widows

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STEREOTYPING; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0033250552     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1800.1999.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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