Del Vecchio Good, Mary-Jo; Munakata, Tseunetsugu; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 38 (1994) 6, pp. 855-862
Oncologists encounter the uncertainty of time horizons in their patients' lives. Although American oncologists are given a cultural mandate to instill hope in the therapeutic narratives they create with patients, uncertainty leads them to expressions of time without horizons or of time with...