Awards
- Winner of Charles A. Corr Award for Literature 1997 (United States)
Overview
Winner of the Margaret Mead Award A classic, moving study of terminally ill children that emphasizes their agency and shows how we can relate to dying children more honestly ""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 dying, how and why they attempt to conceal this knowledge from their parents and the medical staff, and how these adults in turn try to conceal from the children their awareness of the child's impending death. In contrast to many parents, doctors, nurses, and social scientists who regard the children as passive recipients of adult actions, Bluebond-Langner emphasizes the children's role in initiating and maintaining the social order. Her sensitive and stirring portrait shows the children to be willful, purposeful individuals capable of creating their own worlds. The result suggests better ways of relating to dying children and enriches our understanding of the ritual behavior surrounding death.
Full Product Details
Author: Myra Bluebond-Langner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780691028200
ISBN 10: 0691028206
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 21 May 1980
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
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
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
"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 Information
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).
