Traditional medicines, collective negotiation, and representations of risk in Indian cancer care

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-65

  Broom, Alex F ^a   Doron, Assa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cancer; communication; developing countries; health care, alternative and complementary; interviews, semistructured

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84870013077     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732312462242     Document Type: Article

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