Struggles between the body and machine: The paradox of living with a home haemodialysis machine

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 19-35

  Giles, Stephen ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Home haemodialysis; Lived body; Lived experience; Phenomenology; Social assessment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; DEHUMANIZATION; FAMILY; HOME DIALYSIS; HOME HEMODIALYSIS MACHINE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY FAILURE; MACHINE; PHENOMENOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS, HOME; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 24944474826     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v41n02_02     Document Type: Review

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