The challenge of transplants to an intersubjectively established sense of personal identity

Health Care Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-133

  Edgar, Andrew ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Mead; Merleau Ponty; Self; Symbolic interactionism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; ETHICS; FACE SURGERY; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; FACIES; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; PERSONALITY; PHENOMENOLOGY; RECIPIENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BODY IMAGE; CULTURE; FACIAL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 67349097109     PISSN: 10653058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10728-009-0119-y     Document Type: Article

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