Telling stories about illness and disability: The limits and lessons of narrative

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-135

  Garden, Rebecca ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVER; DISABLED PERSON; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAREGIVERS; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; NARRATION; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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