Healthy and chronically-ill children's generalisation of illness to biological and non-biological categories

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 435-450

  Buchanan Barrow, Eithne ^a   Barrett, Martyn ^a   Bati, Mariangela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biology; Children; Illness; Na ve theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844241605     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.370     Document Type: Review

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