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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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    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Publication Date: 27/07/2012
    ISBN13: 9781421404561, 978-1421404561
    ISBN10: 1421404567
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    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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