The Private Worlds of Dying Children Contributor(s): Bluebond-Langner, Myra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691028206 ISBN-13: 9780691028200 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $35.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1980 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Medical | Pediatrics - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
Dewey: 618.921 |
LCCN: 77085529 |
Series: Princeton Paperbacks |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.53" W x 8.42" (0.79 lbs) 304 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |