"My bus is here": A phenomenological exploration of "living-with-dying"

Health Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 417-425

  Willig, Carla ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Hermeneutic phenomenological analysis; Idiographic approach; Living with dying; Object elicitation method

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE STUDY; DYING; HERMENEUTICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84926357543     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000176     Document Type: Article

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