Actions speak louder than words: The embodiment of trust by healthcare professionals in gynae-oncology

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 280-295

  Brown, Patrick R ^a,c   Alaszewski, Andy ^a   Swift, Trish ^b   Nordin, Andy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b EAST KENT HOSPITALS UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body work; Gynaecological cancer; Intentionality; Phenomenology; Trust

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; TRUST;

FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TRUST;

EID: 79551631641     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01284.x     Document Type: Article

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