Occupation and meaning: Narrative in everyday activities of women with chronic rheumatic conditions

OTJR Occupation, Participation and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 58-67

  Alsaker, Sissel ^a   Josephsson, Staffan ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Narrative; Occupation; Ordinariness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER; OCCUPATION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE;

EID: 77952205577     PISSN: 15394492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15394492-20100312-01     Document Type: Article

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