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Chronic Illness and Death in Childhood
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Chronic Illness and Death in Childhood

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2019) | Viewed by 4376

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Panagiotis Pentaris

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Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9LS, UK
Interests: thanatology (death, dying and bereavement); end of life care; death and health policies; social and health care
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Dr. Panayiota Christodoulou

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Department of Psychology and Social Sciences, Frederick University, 7, Y. Frederickou Str., Pallouriotissa, 1036, Nicosia, Cyprus
Interests: trauma and pain, social work practice, social policies, palliative and hospice care, supervision of social workers in palliative care

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Death and dying have often been treated as experiences distant from childhood, both in policy and practice. Often, in conversations and policy documents, death appears to be a subject pertinent to older age or chronic illness, specifically cancer. However, this Special Issue contributes to a different discourse, which suggests that children may also be confronted with death, not simply as grievers but also dying themselves.

Public debates have only engaged with child death since the 2000s, but with vast differences across nations. This Special Issue seeks to acknowledge such discussions, both empirical and theoretical, and bring together current knowledge about the following areas, without being restrictive: childhood death, sibling death, impact of child death, migration and child death, chronic illness in children, terminal stages of illnesses and death, family bereavement following child death, and the professional response to child death. This Special Issue seeks to engage various disciplines, offering a wider view of the subject that will benefit a wider audience. Hence, authors from disciplines like medicine, social care, the social sciences and more are invited to submit manuscripts.

Dr. Panagiotis Pentaris

Dr. Panayiota Christodoulou

 

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Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • child death
  • family bereavement
  • chronic illness
  • dying
  • childhood
  • children’s hospice care
  • final stage

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17 pages, 345 KiB  
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When the Future is Not Bright: Social and Political Stakes in Discussing Childhood Cancer in Romanian Media
by Adriana Teodorescu and Dan Chiribucă
Children 2019, 6(11), 126; https://doi.org/10.3390/children6110126 - 15 Nov 2019
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 3823
Abstract
In contemporary societies’ perception of children, death plays an incredibly insignificant role. This role goes from being ornamental, a weak reminder that our civilisation has overcome the times of children’s high mortality rates, to being some other society’s concern. Despite both medical improvements [...] Read more.
In contemporary societies’ perception of children, death plays an incredibly insignificant role. This role goes from being ornamental, a weak reminder that our civilisation has overcome the times of children’s high mortality rates, to being some other society’s concern. Despite both medical improvements and cultural constructions of the child as an immanent and social transcendence, children can and do die. Although an increasing number of recent studies disclose and legitimise children’s preoccupation with death and dying in the context of a popular culture fascinated with death, studies interested in the representations of death and dying in children are rather scant. In this article, we investigate the social and political stakes in discussing children’s cancer in today’s Romanian media, aiming to make visible how the illustrations of the connections between children, death and illness are never ethically neutral. We begin with the observation that, during recent years, there has been a growing media focus on childhood cancer in Romania. Adopting a qualitative approach and resorting to comparative analysis, we analyse what lies beneath the intentions of criticising troublesome socio-political or medical realities of childhood cancer, revealing the mechanisms through which childhood cancer is transformed into a social illness and the cultural implications for the acceptance of death as an inherent part of life both for children and the population as a whole. Full article
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