Toward a better death: Applying burkean principles of symbolic action to interpret family adaptation to Karen Ann Quinlan's Coma

Health Communication

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 363-385

  Kenny, Robert Wade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; LITERATURE; LONG TERM CARE; PERSONHOOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMA; DRAMA; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERSONHOOD; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS;

EID: 0035238254     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327027HC1304_02     Document Type: Article

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