Disability and narrative: New directions for medicine and the medical humanities

Medical Humanities

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 70-74

  Garden, Rebecca ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABLED PERSON; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; PATIENT RIGHT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISABLED PERSONS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANITIES; HUMANS; NARRATION; PATIENT RIGHTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 78650337473     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2010.004143     Document Type: Article

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