Interdisciplinary workshop on concepts of health and disease: Report

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1018-1022

  Kingma, Elselijn ^a,b   Chisnall, Ben ^a   McCabe, M M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

communication; disease; experience; health; interdisciplinarity; medicine; phenomenology; philosophy; risk; virtue; well being

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WELLBEING; WORKSHOP;

HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80053189757     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01745.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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