Speaking honestly with sick and dying children and adolescents [electronic resource] : unlocking the silence / Dietrich Niethammer ; foreword by Christoph Schmeling-Kludas, foreword by Ruprecht Nitschke ; translated by Victoria W. Hill

Author: Niethammer, Dietrich
Uniform Title: Sprachlose Kind. English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Physical Description: xviii, 215 p. ; 23 cm.

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Contents

Children, sickness, and death -- Children in the hospital -- Children and doctors -- Death and dying in the everyday lives of children -- Physician paternalism versus patient autonomy -- The "precociously mature child" -- Healthy children's concepts of death -- Sick children's concepts of death -- Should we tell sick children the truth? -- Decisions at the end of life.

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9781421404554 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
1421404559 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9781421404561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1421404567 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.

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