
Speaking honestly with sick and dying children and adolescents unlocking the silence
Title:
Speaking honestly with sick and dying children and adolescents unlocking the silence
Author:
Niethammer, Dietrich.
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Sprachlose Kind. English
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
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xviii, 215 p.
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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