Being like everybody else: The personal meanings of being a prosthesis user

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 573-581

  Murray, Craig D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amputation; Artificial limb; Experience; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Meaning; Prosthetic limb; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DREAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMB DEFECT; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SELF CARE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WELFARE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY IMAGE; DISABLED PERSON; E-MAIL; INTERVIEW; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTEES; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BODY IMAGE; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67649170439     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280802240290     Document Type: Article

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