The Private Worlds of Dying Children / / Myra Bluebond-Langner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bluebond-Langner, Myra,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; CHAPTER ONE. Children as Actors --; CHAPTER TWO. The World of Jeffrey Andrews --; CHAPTER THREE. What Terminally 111 Children Know about Their World --; CHAPTER FOUR. How Terminally 111 Children Come to Know Themselves and Their World --; CHAPTER FIVE. Knowing and Concealing --; CHAPTER SIX. Mutual Pretense: Causes and Consequences --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusion --; APPENDIX. Doing the Fieldwork: A Personal Account --; LITERATURE CITED --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691213088; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691213088?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Myra Bluebond-Langner.

"The death of a child," writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, "poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on the way that we die and the way that we permit others to die." In a moving drama constructed from her observations of leukemic children, aged three to nine, in a hospital ward, she shows how the children come to know they are dying, how and why they attempt to conceal this knowledge from their parents and the medical staff, and how these adults in turn try to conceal from the children their awareness of the child's impending death.