In the Shadow of Illness : : Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child / / Myra Bluebond-Langner.

What is it like to live with a child who has a chronic, life-threatening disease? What impact does the illness have on well siblings in the family? Myra Bluebond-Langner suggests that understanding the impact of the illness lies not in identifying deficiencies in the lives of those affected, but in...

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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, , [2021]
©1996
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I. INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1. The Impact of Cystic Fibrosis on Well Siblings
  • PART II. PORTRAITS IN WAITING: NINE FAMILIES
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The Daleys
  • Chapter 3. The Shermans
  • Chapter 4. The Farringtons
  • Chapter 5. The Campbells
  • Chapter 6. The Reynoldses
  • Chapter 7. The Chases
  • Chapter 8. The Woodwards
  • Chapter 9. The Fosters
  • Chapter 10. The Baileys
  • PART III. CONTAINING THE INTRUSION
  • Chapter 11. Parents' Responses to the Care the 111 Child Requires and the Concerns the Child's Condition Engenders
  • Chapter 12. Well Siblings' Views of Cystic Fibrosis and Their Ill Siblings' Condition
  • Chapter 13. Well Siblings' Relationships with Parents and Ill Siblings
  • Afterword: Meeting the Needs of the Well Sibling
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Index