Myra Bluebond-Langner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myra Bluebond-Langner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myra |
| FAMILY NAME | Bluebond-Langner |
| SIGNATURE | BLUEBOND-LANGNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In the Shadow of Illness
Children's and Parents' Conceptualization of Quality of Life in Children With Brain Tumors
The concept of quality of life (QoL) is used in consultations to plan the care and treatment of children and young people (CYP) with brain tumors (BTs). The way in which CYP, their parents, and their health care professionals (HCP) each understand the term has not been adequately investigated. This study aimed to review the current qualitative research on CYP, parents' and clinicians' concepts of QoL for CYP with BTs using meta-ethnography. Six s…
Studying Children's Experiences in Interactions With Clinicians
Increased emphasis on the child's voice and point of view in care and treatment has led to an expansion in the development of methods to access and identify their perspectives. Drawing on our experiences in a study of children with leukemia in hospital, this article explains the challenges and opportunities that arise in the use of five commonly used methods in a study of hospitalized children's experiences with health care professionals, includi…
De Third Mesa à Bloomsbury
L'anthropologue Myra Bluebond-Langner est une chef de file et pionnière dans l'étude d'enfants qui vivent avec des maladies graves limitant l'espérance de vie. En retraçant son parcours intellectuel et de recherche, elle souligne combien l'ethnographie et les approches théoriques anthropologiques sont fécondes dans de nombreux champs d'enquête, dont le domaine émergeant des soins palliatifs pédiatriques. Voulant cerner les processus de socialisat…
Worlds of dying children and their well siblings
This paper examines the place of illness and death in the lives of healthy children and their ill siblings at the end stages of life. The behaviors that the children exhibit provide important insights into the children's views of their lives as well as their views of death
The Private Worlds of Dying Children
The death of a child, writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on the way that we die and the way that we permit others to die. In a moving drama constructed from her observations of leukemic children, aged three to nine, in a hospital ward, she shows how the children come to know they are dying, how and why they attempt to conceal this knowledge from their parents and the medical staff, and ho…
Sex, Incest, and Death
In this paper an attempt is made to show why initiation and/or puberty rites occur in so many societies and why they take the shape they do. To do this I have used concepts derived from social and physical anthropology and from psychoanalysis. The rites are seen as part of a general human concern with categorization and the attribution of power/danger to what is not classifiable. The particular problem lies in the metamorphosis from the sexual wo…
Studying Children's Experiences in Interactions With Clinicians
Increased emphasis on the child's voice and point of view in care and treatment has led to an expansion in the development of methods to access and identify their perspectives. Drawing on our experiences in a study of children with leukemia in hospital, this article explains the challenges and opportunities that arise in the use of five commonly used methods in a study of hospitalized children's experiences with health care professionals, includi…
Sex, Incest, and Death
In this paper an attempt is made to show why initiation and/or puberty rites occur in so many societies and why they take the shape they do. To do this I have used concepts derived from social and physical anthropology and from psychoanalysis. The rites are seen as part of a general human concern with categorization and the attribution of power/danger to what is not classifiable. The particular problem lies in the metamorphosis from the sexual wo…
Worlds of dying children and their well siblings
This paper examines the place of illness and death in the lives of healthy children and their ill siblings at the end stages of life. The behaviors that the children exhibit provide important insights into the children's views of their lives as well as their views of death
Sex, Incest, and Death
In this paper an attempt is made to show why initiation and/or puberty rites occur in so many societies and why they take the shape they do. To do this I have used concepts derived from social and physical anthropology and from psychoanalysis. The rites are seen as part of a general human concern with categorization and the attribution of power/danger to what is not classifiable. The particular problem lies in the metamorphosis from the sexual wo…
The Private Worlds of Dying Children
The death of a child, writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on the way that we die and the way that we permit others to die. In a moving drama constructed from her observations of leukemic children, aged three to nine, in a hospital ward, she shows how the children come to know they are dying, how and why they attempt to conceal this knowledge from their parents and the medical staff, and ho…
Worlds of dying children and their well siblings
This paper examines the place of illness and death in the lives of healthy children and their ill siblings at the end stages of life. The behaviors that the children exhibit provide important insights into the children's views of their lives as well as their views of death
De Third Mesa à Bloomsbury
L'anthropologue Myra Bluebond-Langner est une chef de file et pionnière dans l'étude d'enfants qui vivent avec des maladies graves limitant l'espérance de vie. En retraçant son parcours intellectuel et de recherche, elle souligne combien l'ethnographie et les approches théoriques anthropologiques sont fécondes dans de nombreux champs d'enquête, dont le domaine émergeant des soins palliatifs pédiatriques. Voulant cerner les processus de socialisat…
Children's and Parents' Conceptualization of Quality of Life in Children With Brain Tumors
The concept of quality of life (QoL) is used in consultations to plan the care and treatment of children and young people (CYP) with brain tumors (BTs). The way in which CYP, their parents, and their health care professionals (HCP) each understand the term has not been adequately investigated. This study aimed to review the current qualitative research on CYP, parents' and clinicians' concepts of QoL for CYP with BTs using meta-ethnography. Six s…
Studying Children's Experiences in Interactions With Clinicians
Increased emphasis on the child's voice and point of view in care and treatment has led to an expansion in the development of methods to access and identify their perspectives. Drawing on our experiences in a study of children with leukemia in hospital, this article explains the challenges and opportunities that arise in the use of five commonly used methods in a study of hospitalized children's experiences with health care professionals, includi…
In the Shadow of Illness
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (4 works) · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (2 works) · History (2 works)