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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1978 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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