The Private Worlds of Dying Children

Zusatztext "A source of personal insight for all who care for children . . . lucid and sensitive." Informationen zum Autor Myra Bluebond-Langner is professor emerita at University College London and Board of Governors Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Rutgers University. She is also the author of In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child (Princeton). Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung "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 dy

Product details

• Authors: Myer Bluebond-Langer, M. Bluebond-langne, Myra Bluebond-Langner, Bluebond-Langner Myra, Langne Myra Bluebond
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.1980
• EAN: 9780691028200
• ISBN: 978-0-691-02820-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Princeton Paperbacks
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Child welfare, Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents, Child welfare and youth services, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying