FIGHTING FOR THE BREATH OF LIFE: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF PATIENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS.
Contributors: City University of New York.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Social Work.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery.
Description: This dissertation examines the plight of the patient with cystic fibrosis. It is based on short interviews with cystic fibrosis patients and health care providers, and on observations in a hospital setting. The dissertation draws upon the sociology of medicine, the sociology of death and dying, and on the sociology of deviance.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-08, Section: A, page: 2652.

Thesis (PH.D.)--CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, 1989.

School code: 0046.