Views on death and dying among health care workers in an Indian cancer care hospice: Balancing individual and collective perspectives

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 250-256

  Loiselle, Carmen G ^a,b   Sterling, Michelle M ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Death and dying; health assistants; hospice workers; India; individual and collective perspectives; palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEATH; DYING; EMOTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INDIA; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGIOUS GROUP; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL WORKER; TERMINAL CARE; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CULTURE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL VALUES; SPIRITUALITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERMINAL CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858664415     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216311400931     Document Type: Article

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