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.
Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Description: xviii, 215 pISBN:- 9781421404554 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
- 1421404559 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781421404561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1421404567 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781421405360 (e-book)
- Sprachlose Kind. English
- 618.92/0029 23
- RJ47.5 .N5413 2012eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.