The Private Worlds of Dying Children / / 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, i...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1978
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t PREFACE --   |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --   |t ABBREVIATIONS --   |t CHAPTER ONE. Children as Actors --   |t CHAPTER TWO. The World of Jeffrey Andrews --   |t CHAPTER THREE. What Terminally 111 Children Know about Their World --   |t CHAPTER FOUR. How Terminally 111 Children Come to Know Themselves and Their World --   |t CHAPTER FIVE. Knowing and Concealing --   |t CHAPTER SIX. Mutual Pretense: Causes and Consequences --   |t CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusion --   |t APPENDIX. Doing the Fieldwork: A Personal Account --   |t LITERATURE CITED --   |t INDEX 
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520 |a "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. 
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653 |a Futterman, E. 
653 |a aggression. 
653 |a behavior interpretation. 
653 |a child pampering. 
653 |a clinic experience. 
653 |a death knowledge. 
653 |a disclosure. 
653 |a eavesdropping. 
653 |a food intake. 
653 |a hospital admission. 
653 |a housekeeping staff. 
653 |a information acquisition. 
653 |a isolation environment. 
653 |a medication interpretation. 
653 |a mutual pretense. 
653 |a nurse attitudes. 
653 |a open awareness. 
653 |a parents' group. 
653 |a plans. 
653 |a play participation. 
653 |a questioning. 
653 |a remission. 
653 |a school participation. 
653 |a withdrawal. 
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