Tough places to be tender: Contracting for happy or good enough endings in therapeutic massage or bodywork?

Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 111-115

  Mackereth, Peter ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMOTION; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MASSAGE; METHODOLOGY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; TOUCH; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMANS; MASSAGE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TOUCH;

EID: 0034238228     PISSN: 13536117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/ctnm.2000.0489     Document Type: Article

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