Is television healthy? The medical perspective

Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 109-147

  Rich, Michael ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410618047-12     Document Type: Chapter

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