In Sickness and in Play: Children Coping with Chronic Illness

by Cindy Dell Clark

Book Overview

For children who live with a chronic illness, each day is filled with endless treatments, painful symptoms, confusion, and embarrassment. How can an eight-year old girl understand diabetes let alone explain to her schoolmates why she has to leave class to have her blood tested? How can the father of a child with asthma ever sleep soundly through the night with the fear that his son may suffocate in the next room.

In In Sickness and in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813532701
• ISBN13: 9780813532707
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"