An ethnography of everyday caring for the living, the dying, and the dead: Toward a biomedical technography

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1134-1156

  McGibbon, Elizabeth ^a   Peter, Elizabeth ^b  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical technology; End of life care; Ethics; Ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349141518     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408322229     Document Type: Article

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