Palliative care in context: an ethnographic account of the journey from diagnosis to the end of life.
This thesis provides an ethnographic account of the journey from diagnosis with a life-limiting illness to the end of life. It tracks the lives and eventual deaths of eight people and 83 family members for a period of three and a half years in total. Culture is located as a central element or lens b...
Main Author: | Hughes, Catherine Rose |
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Language: | en |
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University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political Sciences
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3813 |
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