Environmental Sensitivity: EquivocaL Illness in the Context of Place

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 86-105

  Fletcher, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

environmental sensitivity; illness experience; medically unexplained illness; Nova Scotia; phenomenology; sense of place

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STIMULUS; TIME;

ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645512442     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461506061759     Document Type: Article

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