Cancer experience and its narration: An accidental study

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 292-318

  Segal, Judy Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; NARRATION; SICK ROLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878337604     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2012.0017     Document Type: Article

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