Lying, misery and illness: Towards a medical anthropology of the lie

Anthropology and Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-95

  Van Dongen, Els ^a   Fainzang, Sylvie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; MEDICINE; MORALITY; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0036705654     PISSN: 13648470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1364847022000029697     Document Type: Review

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