Living well through chronic illness: The relevance of virtue theory to patients with chronic osteoarthritis

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 474-478

  Swift, Teresa L ^a,d   Ashcroft, Richard E ^b   Tadd, Win ^c   Campbell, Alastair V ^a   Dieppe, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Centre for Ethics in Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Osteoarthritis; Virtue theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTELLECT; MORALITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY; PHENOMENOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ESTEEM; STRENGTH; THEORY;

EID: 0037109317     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.10664     Document Type: Article

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