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The private worlds of dying children /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton ; Guildford :
Princeton University Press,
1978.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- One: Children as Actors
- Two: The World of Jeffrey Andrews
- Three: What Terminally III Children Know about their World
- 1. The Hospital's Physical Plant
- 2. Hospital Personnel
- 3. Other Patients
- 4. The Disease: Treatment, Process, and Prognosis
- Four: How Terminally III Children Come to Know Themselves and their World
- 1. Becoming Aware as a Socialization Process
- 2. The Stages of Awareness
- Five: Knowing and Concealing
- 1. Mutual Pretense: The Context of Awareness
- 2. The Development and Maintenance of Mutual Pretense
- Six: Mutual Pretense: Causes and Consequences
- 1. The Children
- 2. The Parents
- 3. The Hospital Staff
- 4. Open Awareness: The Alternative
- Seven: Conclusion
- 1. Death, Self, and Society
- 2. Relating to Terminallu III Children
- Appendix: Doing the Fieldwork: A Personal Account
- Literature Cited
- Index