'It's as if PBC didn't exist': The illness experience of women affected by primary biliary cirrhosis

Psychology and Health

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1429-1445

  Montali, L ^a   Frigerio, A ^a   Riva, P ^a   Invernizzi, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

delegitimation; fatigue; gender roles; illness experience; interpretative phenomenological analysis; primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84858779183     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2011.565876     Document Type: Article

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