In Sickness and in Play
Subtitle: Children Coping With Chronic Illness (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780813532691
Subjects: Children; Coping with illness; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Pediatrics; Developmental - Child; Case studies; Psychology; Family & Relationships; Health - General; Family/Marriage; USA; Diabetes in children; Children with Special Needs; Children's Studies; Asthma in children; Psychological aspects; Sociology - General; Adjustment (Psychology) in chi; Adjustment (Psychology) in children
First sentence: Today's fairy-tale ethos of American childhood, according to which children are meant to live happily ever after, not to die too soon, reckons poorly with serious childhood illness.