Practical compassions: Repertoires of practice and compassion talk in acute mental healthcare

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 383-399

  Brown, Brian ^a   Crawford, Paul ^b   Gilbert, Paul ^c   Gilbert, Jean ^c   Gale, Corinne ^c  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Compassion; Mental health; Phenomenology; Practice

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING;

ACUTE DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84897375226     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12065     Document Type: Article

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