Disclosure of cancer diagnosis and prognosis in Northern Tanzania

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 905-913

  Harris, Julian J ^a   Shao, John ^b   Sugarman, Jeremy ^c  

^a BALLIOL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TUMAINI UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Disclosure; Ethics; Tanzania; Traditional medicine; Truth telling

Indexed keywords

CANCER; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PROGNOSIS; TANZANIA;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POVERTY; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; TANZANIA; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0037364926     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00090-4     Document Type: Article

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