Rebuilding life: The experience of living with AIDS after facing imminent death

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 646-660

  Trainor, Andrea ^a,b,c   Ezer, Hélène ^a,b,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG COMBINATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0034268032     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104973200129118705     Document Type: Article

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