Biting off the Bracelet : : A Study of Children in Hospitals / / Ann H. Beuf.
This is a book about the social situation of the hospitalized child in twentieth-century America. With details and examples drawn from the day-to-day life of children in hospitals, the author shows how children are often frightened and confused by a system that professes to be a benevolent one. Spea...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1979 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (164 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- one.The role of person-in-a-total-institution
- two. Socialization for patienting
- three. Coping i: the children
- four. Coping ii: the staff
- five. Social and sociological implications
- six. Some proposed changes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index