The Private Worlds of Dying Children
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Private Worlds of Dying Children
By (Author) Myra Bluebond-Langner
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th July 1980
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Child welfare and youth services
Age groups: adolescents
Sociology: death and dying
155.937083
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
340g
Description
"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 dy
Reviews
Winner of the 1997 Charles A. Corr Award in Literature "One closes this interesting, tender book with a wish that the adults could do their jobs as well as the children do their dying."--American Journal of Psychiatry
Author Bio
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).
