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Book Synopsis
Niethammer's compelling personal experiences combined with the latest research make this a compassionate and invaluable resource for physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers, parents-for all who care for sick and dying children and adolescents.

Trade Review
A valuable and enlightening educational experience. Niethammer writes with authority and insight. -- Andrew R. Barnosky JAMA

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Christoph Schmeling-Kludas
Foreword, by Ruprecht Nitschke
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Children, Sickness, and Death
3. Children in the Hospital
4. Children and Doctors
5. Death and Dying in the Everyday Lives of Children
6. Physician Paternalism versus Patient Autonomy
7. The "Precociously Mature" Child
8. Healthy Children's Concepts of Death
9. Sick Children's Concepts of Death
10. Should We Tell Sick Children the Truth?
11. Decisions at the End of Life
References
Name Index

Speaking Honestly with Sick and Dying Children

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 27 July 2012
      ISBN-13 9781421404561
      978-1421404561
      ISBN-10 1421404567
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      Medical ethics and professional conduct Medical study and revision guides Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Niethammer's compelling personal experiences combined with the latest research make this a compassionate and invaluable resource for physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers, parents-for all who care for sick and dying children and adolescents.

      Trade Review
      A valuable and enlightening educational experience. Niethammer writes with authority and insight. -- Andrew R. Barnosky JAMA

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, by Christoph Schmeling-Kludas
      Foreword, by Ruprecht Nitschke
      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      1. Introduction
      2. Children, Sickness, and Death
      3. Children in the Hospital
      4. Children and Doctors
      5. Death and Dying in the Everyday Lives of Children
      6. Physician Paternalism versus Patient Autonomy
      7. The "Precociously Mature" Child
      8. Healthy Children's Concepts of Death
      9. Sick Children's Concepts of Death
      10. Should We Tell Sick Children the Truth?
      11. Decisions at the End of Life
      References
      Name Index

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