"i come because i can": Stories of hope from the cancer drop in

Illness Crisis and Loss

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-166

  Watts, Jacqueline H ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Day care; Hope; Palliative care; Participant observation; Self comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349315373     PISSN: 10541373     EISSN: 15526968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/IL.17.2.e     Document Type: Article

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