Making sense of patient expertise

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-19

  Heldal, Frode ^a   Tjora, Aksel ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine   (Norway)

Author keywords

Health care; Informed patients; Sensemaking; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650263580     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2008.17     Document Type: Article

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