Senses, bodily knowledge, and autoethnography: Unbeknown knowledge from an ICU experience

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1307-1315

  Uotinen, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

autoethnography; bodily experiences; embodiment; illness and disease, experiences; intensive care unit (ICU); knowledge construction; lived body; lived experience; narrative inquiry; recovery; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KNOWLEDGE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTENSIVE CARE; KNOWLEDGE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 80052770501     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732311413908     Document Type: Article

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