On teaching infants "the right use of their hands": Advice and reassurance from Mary Palmer Tyler's The Maternal Physician (1811)

Laterality

Volumn 15, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 4-14

  Harris, Lauren Julius ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

EID: 77949406642     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500701580777     Document Type: Article

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