'This wound has spoilt everything': Emotional capital and the experience of surgical site infections

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1171-1187

  Brown, Brian ^a   Tanner, Judith ^b   Padley, Wendy ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Nursing and Midwifery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Emotional capital; Healthcare associated infection; Stoicism; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ANGER; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84913607080     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12160     Document Type: Article

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