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The Private Worlds of Dying Children
Myra Bluebond-Langner
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Description for The Private Worlds of Dying Children
Paperback. Series: Princeton Paperbacks. Num Pages: 304 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JHBZ; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
"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.
"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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Paperbacks
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691028200
SKU
V9780691028200
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About Myra Bluebond-Langner
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).
Reviews for The Private Worlds of Dying Children
Winner of the 1997 Charles A. Corr Award in Literature "To present the child's view is always refreshing and, even if the children are dying of leukemia, their ways of adapting to, denying, subverting, ignoring the hospital's social structure, and otherwise trying to maintain their real values in the face of death, are so authentic that they give zest and dignity to a world that is catastrophic for the children and their families...One closes this interesting, tender book with a wish that the adults could do their jobs as well as the children do their dying."
American Journal of Psychiatry "[A] convincing case for training of health professionals dealing with the terminally ill while recognizing the social constraints upon all involved. This is an exceptional and sympathetic study.'"
Library Journal
American Journal of Psychiatry "[A] convincing case for training of health professionals dealing with the terminally ill while recognizing the social constraints upon all involved. This is an exceptional and sympathetic study.'"
Library Journal