Living With “Man’s Fate” Away From Home

Edward Nilges is a former software consultant who came from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2005, and has since worked as a teacher. Having been residing in Hong Kong for all these years, Edward fell ill with cancer and its complications. He choose to receive medical treatment in Hong Kong, where both the d...

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Autores principales: Wong, Hilda, Nilges, Edward
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Special Interest Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28725846
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373516685958
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description Edward Nilges is a former software consultant who came from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2005, and has since worked as a teacher. Having been residing in Hong Kong for all these years, Edward fell ill with cancer and its complications. He choose to receive medical treatment in Hong Kong, where both the dominant culture and medical system were foreign to him. Here, he gives an account of his physical, psychological, social and existential experience, in quest of meaning away from home, while his physician discusses the clinician’s perspective.
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spelling pubmed-55136522017-07-19 Living With “Man’s Fate” Away From Home Wong, Hilda Nilges, Edward J Patient Exp Special Interest Article Edward Nilges is a former software consultant who came from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2005, and has since worked as a teacher. Having been residing in Hong Kong for all these years, Edward fell ill with cancer and its complications. He choose to receive medical treatment in Hong Kong, where both the dominant culture and medical system were foreign to him. Here, he gives an account of his physical, psychological, social and existential experience, in quest of meaning away from home, while his physician discusses the clinician’s perspective. SAGE Publications 2016-12-01 2016-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5513652/ /pubmed/28725846 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373516685958 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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