Speaking honestly with sick and dying children and adolescents : unlocking the silence / Dietrich Niethammer ; foreword by Christoph Schmeling-Kludas, foreword by Ruprecht Nitschke ; translated by Victoria W. Hill.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index.
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.
