Societal and workplace responses to perinatal loss: Disenfranchised grief or healing connection

Human Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-166

  Hazen, Mary Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disenfranchised grief; Perinatal loss; Workplace response to grief

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037326876     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726703056002889     Document Type: Article

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