'Good' and 'bad' deaths: Narratives and professional identities in interviews with hospice managers

Discourse Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 667-685

  Semino, Elena ^a   Demjén, Zsófia ^b   Koller, Veronika ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Death and dying; end of life; narrative; professional identities; tellability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906764374     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445614538566     Document Type: Article

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