Resilience among Japanese atomic bomb survivors

International Nursing Review

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 54-60

  Knowles, A ^a  

^a King College   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster nursing; Ethnography; History; International issues; Narrative analysis; Nuclear war; Psychosocial nursing; Trauma care

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79551484982     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2010.00855.x     Document Type: Article

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