Hope Against Hope in Cancer at the End of Life

Journal of Religion and Health

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 731-742

  Pattison, Natalie A ^a   Lee, Christopher ^a  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Christian hope; Coping; End of life; Hope; Reframing hope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LITERATURE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SPOUSE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHRISTIANITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; SPIRITUALITY; SPOUSES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 80052630299     PISSN: 00224197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-009-9265-7     Document Type: Article

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