Understanding the suffering of a patient with an illness: signs, context and strategies1
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1 Paper extracted from Doctoral Dissertation “El padecimiento de la persona ante la enfermedad. Metaestudio cualitativo a través del relato biográfico” presented to Universidad de Alicante, Spain. 2 PhD, Professor, Departamento de Enfermería, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Granada, Spain. 3 PhD, Full Professor, Escuela Universitaria, Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Alicante, Spain. 4 MSc, Professor, Departamento de Enfermería, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Granada, Spain. 5 PhD, Professor, Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Málaga, Spain. 6 Doctoral Student, Universidad de Alicante, Spain. Hospital de Montilla, Spain. 7 RN, Specialist. Servicio Andaluz de Salud. Spain.
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