Transforming desolation into consolation: Being a mother with life-threatening breast cancer

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 18-44

  Öhlén, Joakim ^a   Holm, Ann Kristin ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CHILD; CONFLICT; DENIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SWEDEN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NARRATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SWEDEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 28844508253     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330500377226     Document Type: Article

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