Advancing nursing scholarship through the interpretation of imaginative literature: Ancestral connectedness and the survival of the sufferer

Advances in Nursing Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 65-80

  Harrison, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestor; Ancestral connectedness; Kin; Literary analysis; Nursing; Suffering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FAMILY; IMAGINATION; LITERATURE; MENTAL STRESS; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REHABILITATION; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SYMBOLISM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BIBLIOTHERAPY; FAMILY; IMAGINATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; NURSING RESEARCH; PHILOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 0039559256     PISSN: 01619268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200112000-00007     Document Type: Article

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