Disruption and cancer narratives: From awareness to advocacy

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 333-350

  Gardner, Kirsten E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Women's Studies Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LITERATURE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; NARRATION; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 78650872339     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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