Hope and hoping in the talk of dying cancer patients

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 138-149

  Eliott, Jaklin A ^a   Olver, Ian N ^b  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bioethics; Cancer; Clinical interaction; Discourse analysis; Hope

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; FEMALE; HOPE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESPONSIBILITY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SPEECH; TERMINAL DISEASE; WELFARE;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; TERMINALLY ILL;

ADELAIDE; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33751015459     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.029     Document Type: Article

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