Ambiguity and the search for meaning
Childhood leukaemia in the modern clinical context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11240437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Comaroff (University of Manchester, corresponding author), Peter Maguire (0000-0002-1051-3921, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115-123 |
| Publication date | 1981-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine Part B Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-7987 • E-ISSN: 1878-3910 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0160-7987(81)90034-x |
| PMID | 6941488 |
| OpenAlex | W2066259548 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 18 |
Ambiguity · Context (archaeology · Control (management · Developmental psychology · Disease · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Pathology · Predictability · Psychotherapist · Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life · Computer Science · History · Medicine · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Lumps in the breast
Living with Depression
Getting Used to It
The sociology of chronic illness
Between Discipline and Empowerment
The Meaning of Lumps
Narrating the nadir
Experiences and management of uncertainty following treatment for prostate cancer
Existential and Clinical Uncertainty in the Medical Encounter
Cancer survivorship, mor(t)ality and lifestyle discourses on cancer prevention
The family of a child with cancer - changes within the family system
Grappling With Affliction
Uncertainty and the Lives of Persons with Aids
Paroles d’enfants, paroles sur l’enfant atteint de cancer en hospitalisation pédiatrique à domicile
Biomarkers, the molecular gaze and the transformation of cancer survivorship
Illness, Biomedicine, and Alternative Healing in Brittany, France
In search of the cancer candidate
Bodies of knowledge
Understanding fear of cancer recurrence in terms of damage to 'everyday health competence
The significance and consequences of having painful and disabled joints in older age
Chronic illness as biographical disruption
The genesis of chronic illness
Market Magic
Disability as Moral Experience
Moral Reasoning and the Meaning of Cancer
Signifying the Pandemics
Cultivating the Body
Slave Ethics and Imagining Critically Applied Anthropology in Public Health Research
Relativism in the diagnosis of hypoglycemia
What is not, but might be
What cancer tells us about general practice. Birth of an hypothesis
A diagnostic illusory? The case of distinguishing between "vegetative" and "minimally conscious" states
Parenting in a crisis
Illness experience in a chronic disease-ALS
Improving the detection of psychiatric problems in cancer patients
Dilemmas in general practice
It seems like you're going around in circles
Observations Concerning Fear of Death in Fatally Ill Children and Their Mothers
Physicians' Views on the Level of Medical Information Among Patients
Dying or living
Explorations in language and meaning
Explorations in Language and Meaning
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Birth of the Clinic
African Traditional Thought and Western Science
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2024 (43) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |