Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10471884 Social Science & Medicine 2011 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Shows that examining coping strategies is only part of understanding carers of cancer patients' emotions. ► Gives a rare interactionist sociology of emotions and temporal analysis of carers of cancer patients' emotions. ► Offers temporal anomie to describe a carers' disrupted future-orientation after hearing their spouse's cancer diagnosis. ► Provides insight into what medical professionals do in delivering a diagnosis: address temporal anomie.
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