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Author Bluebond-Langner, Myra, 1948-

Title The private worlds of dying children / Myra Bluebond-Langner
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1978]
©1978

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 MELB  618.92155 BLU  AVAILABLE
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.
Socialization.
Terminally ill children -- Psychology.
Attitude to Death.
Child.
Death.
Child.
Infant.
Attitude to Death.
Death.
Leukemia.
Socialization.
Terminal Care.
LC no. 77085529
ISBN 0691028206 (paperback)
0691093741