The Private Worlds of Dying Children

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myra Bluebond-Langner.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 282 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1978]

Summary:

"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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-275) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-21308-9

OCLC:

1198931212