The experience of miscarriage in first pregnancy: The women's voices

Death Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-29

  Gerber Epstein, Paula ^a   Leichtentritt, Ronit D ^a   Benyamini, Yael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GRIEF; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MENTAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY; SOCIOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; BEREAVEMENT; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GRIEF; HUMANS; ISRAEL; PREGNANCY; SEXUALITY; SOCIOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN;

EID: 57649129144     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180802494032     Document Type: Article

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