| Description |
xv, 282 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23cm |
| Contents |
1. Children as actors -- 2. The world of Jeffrey Andrews -- 3. What terminally ill children know about their world : The hospital's physical plant ; Hospital personnel ; Other patients ; The disease: treatment, process, and prognosis -- 4. How terminally ill children come to know themselves and their world : Becoming aware as a socialization process ; The stages of awareness -- 5. Knowing and concealing : Mutual pretense: the context of awareness ; The development and maintenance of mutual pretense -- 6. Mutual pretense: causes and consequences : The children ; The parents ; The hospital staff ; Open awareness: the alternative -- 7. Conclusion : Death, self, and society ; Relating to terminally ill children -- Appendix: Doing the fieldwork: a personal account |
| Summary |
Dying children need to share their knowledge that they are dying, but they also need to have their parents with them. The author advocates a policy that allows the dying children to maintain open awareness with those who can handle it, and at the same time to maintina mutual pretense with those who want to practice it |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 256-275 |
| Subject |
Leukemia in children -- Psychological aspects.
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Socialization.
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Terminally ill children -- Psychology.
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Attitude to Death.
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Child.
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Death.
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Child.
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Infant.
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Attitude to Death.
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Death.
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Leukemia.
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Socialization.
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Terminal Care.
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| LC no. |
77085529 |
| ISBN |
0691028206 (paperback) |
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0691093741 |
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