Tricksters and truth tellers: Narrating illness in an age of authenticity and appropriation

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-199

  Frank, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Audre Lorde; Illness narratives; Patient resistance; Trickster narratives; Truth telling

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 78650896438     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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