The discursive properties of "hope": A qualitative analysis of cancer patients' speech

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 173-193

  Eliott, Jaklin ^a   Olver, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; LITERATURE; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; RESUSCITATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 0036484805     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104973230201200204     Document Type: Article

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