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The experience of living with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) and being on dialysis is a complex and life-changing one that has received some investigation within the qualitative psychological realm (see e.g., Gill & Lowes, 2008; Martin-McDonald, 2003; Polaschek, 2003).
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Spiers, J., Smith, J.A. (2016). Using Autobiographical Poetry as Data to Investigate the Experience of Living with End-Stage Renal Disease. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_18
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