'Let me explain': Narrative emplotment and one patient's experience of oral cancer

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 439-448

  Crossley, Michele L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation to illness; Narrative; Oral cancer; Plot; Therapeutic emplotment; Time

Indexed keywords

CANCER;

ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DOCUMENTATION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; MOUTH CARCINOMA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NARRATION; NEWSPAPERS; SICK ROLE; TIME;

EID: 0037294294     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00362-8     Document Type: Article

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