The Private Worlds of Dying Children /

The Private Worlds of Dying Children /

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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, i...

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Main Author: Bluebond-Langner, Myra (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHAPTER ONE. Children as Actors
  • CHAPTER TWO. The World of Jeffrey Andrews
  • CHAPTER THREE. What Terminally 111 Children Know about Their World
  • CHAPTER FOUR. How Terminally 111 Children Come to Know Themselves and Their World
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Knowing and Concealing
  • CHAPTER SIX. Mutual Pretense: Causes and Consequences
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusion
  • APPENDIX. Doing the Fieldwork: A Personal Account
  • LITERATURE CITED
  • INDEX

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