The private worlds of dying children

Reprint of (manifestation):

1. Children as actors

2. The world of Jeffrey Andrews

3. What terminally ill children know about their world. The hospital's physical plant ; Hospital personnel ; Other patients ; The disease : treatment, process, and prognosis

4. How terminally ill children come to know themselves and their world. Becoming aware as a socialization process ; The stages of awareness

5. Knowing and concealing. Mutual pretense : the context of awareness ; The development and maintenance of mutual pretense

6. Mutual pretense : causes and consequences. The children ; The parents ; The hospital staff ; Open awareness : the alternative

7. Conclusion. Death, self, and society ; Relating to terminally ill children

Appendix. Doing the fieldwork : a personal account