Private Worlds of Dying Children
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Anemia
Anthropologist
Anticipatory grief
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Awareness
Baby shower
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Blood pressure
Blood test
Blood transfusion
Bone marrow
Bone pain
Cancer research
Career
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Chemotherapy
Complication (horology)
Criticism
Death
Diaper
Disease
Efficacy
Epidemic
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Explanation
Extrapolation
Family therapy
Fraternization
Grandparent
Hair loss
Headache
Hematology
Heme
Hernia repair
Hospital
Hospital gown
Human behavior
Ideal type
Illustration
Indication (medicine)
Indulgence
Infection
Interaction
Leukemia
Medical history
Medical school
Mennonite
Methotrexate
Mourning
Mouth ulcer
Mrs.
Nosebleed
Nursing
Occupational therapist
Oncology
Ostracism
Pain management
Parenting
Pediatrics
Personnel
Physician
Platelet
Platelet transfusion
Play therapy
Prednisone
Profession
Prognosis
Proofreading
Psychiatrist
Product details
- ISBN 9780691028200
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 1980
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"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.
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).
