Unstable terminality: Negotiating the meaning of chronicity and terminality in motor neurone disease

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 81-96

  Lerum, Sverre Vigeland ^a   Solbrække, Kari Nyheim ^a   Holmøy, Trygve ^a,b   Frich, Jan C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Limbo; Motor neurone disease; Prognosis; Unstable terminality

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NORWAY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEGOTIATING; NORWAY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84921268268     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12182     Document Type: Article

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