Hope, life, and death: A qualitative analysis of dying cancer patients' talk about hope

Death Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 609-638

  Eliott, Jaklin A ^a,b   Olver, Ian N ^a  

^a Cancer Council Australia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEATH; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DEATH; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 67849126604     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180903011982     Document Type: Article

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