The Illness Experience: Palliative Care Given the impossibility of Healing

This paper presents a reflection about being terminally ill and the various ways that the subject has at its disposal to deal with this event. The objective is to understand the experience of palliation for patients undergoing no therapeutic possibilities of cure. The methodology of this study has t...

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Main Authors: Margarida Maria Florêncio Dantas, Maria Cristina Lopes de Almeida Amazonas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2016-06-01
Series:Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0080-62342016001100047&lng=en&tlng=en