Women living with ovarian cancer: Dealing with an early death

Health Care for Woman International

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 135-148

  Bowes, Denise E ^a,b   Tamlyn, Deborah ^a   Butler, Lorna J ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LITERATURE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SELF CONCEPT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0036483988     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/073993302753429013     Document Type: Article

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