Constructing denial as a disease object: Accounts by medical students meeting dying patients

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 391-404

  Borgstrom, Erica ^a   Barclay, Stephen ^a   Cohn, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Denial; End of life; Good death; Medical education; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DENIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; COMMUNICATION; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84875677505     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01487.x     Document Type: Article

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