Making new meanings of being in the world after treatment for oral cancer

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1076-1086

  Röing, Marta ^a   Hirsch, Jan Michaél ^a   Holmström, Inger ^a   Schuster, Marja ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Gadamer; Heidegger; Hermeneutics; Oral; Ricoeur

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IDENTITY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; ORAL SURGERY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WELLBEING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 68349086764     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732309341192     Document Type: Article

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