Abstract
This article presents the results of a study that explored the literature on hospital and school as spaces for the development of the children affected by cancer. Historical constructions of health and disease, and of the development of children requiring recurrent hospitalizations, thus experiencing hospital protocols and school systematization, are discussed. The results question the interaction between the two institutions responsible for the education of the child undergoing hospital treatment, indicating how precarious this relationship is, and how it produces an education marked by impossibilities, where physical and social barriers are hidden under the mask of the disease, allowing to arise a bitter taste of failure from the part of the child.
Keywords:
hospital education; health and disease; child development