Unremarkable recoveries: Normalizing adversity and cancer survival

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 208-222

  Marilyn, Moira Killoran ^a,c   Lewis, Jean Schlitz Nola ^a,b  

^a PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Institute of Noetic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIFORNIA; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPIRITUALITY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0036483906     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104973202129119847     Document Type: Article

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