When medical cure is not an unmitigated good

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 282-292

  Orfali, Kristina ^a,c   Anderson Shaw, Lisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Mail Code 3355 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 17744391987     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2005.0061     Document Type: Review

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