Aesthetic Engagements: "Being" in Everyday Life With Advanced Cancer

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-133

  la Cour, Karen ^a   Hansen, Helle Ploug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

advanced cancer; aesthetics; authentic being; dying; Heidegger; meaning making; phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OBSERVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84857927416     PISSN: 10499091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049909111413117     Document Type: Review

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