"I speak a different dialect": Teen explanatory models of difference and disability

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-48

  Daley, Tamara C ^a   Weisner, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Culture; Disability; Explanatory models

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISABLED PERSON; ETHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CULTURE; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038011888     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2003.17.1.25     Document Type: Article

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