Dancing Around Infertility: The Use of Metaphors in a Complex Medical Situation

Health Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 612-623

  Palmer Wackerly, Angela L ^a   Krieger, Janice L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LITERATURE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; METAPHOR; NARRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84926089283     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.888386     Document Type: Article

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