Children’s Understanding of Biology and Health

Abstract

1. Introduction Michael Siegal and Candida Peterson Part I. Development of Biological Understanding: 2. Young children's understanding of mind-body relationships Kayako Inagaki and Giyoo Hatano 3. How a naive theory of biology is acquired Ken Springer 4. Constructing a coherent theory children's biological understanding of life and death Virginia Slaughter, Raquel Jaakkola and Susan Carey Part II. Health Issues: 5. What young children's understanding of contamination and contagion tells us about their concepts of illness Charles W. Kalish 6. Children and pain John E. Taplin, Belinda Goodenough, Joan R. Webb and Laura Vogl 7. Children and food Leann Birch, Jennifer Fischer and Karen Grimm-Thomas 8. The ethics of emaciation: moral connotations of body, self and diet Carol J. Nemeroff and Carolyn J. Cavanaugh Part III. Applications: 9. Considering children's folkbiology in health education Terry Kit-fong Au, Laura F. Romo and Jennifer E. Dewitt 10. Young children's understanding of the physician's role and the medical hearsay exception Melody R. Herbst, Margaret S. Steward, Robin L. Hansen and John E. B. Myers 11. Cognitive development and the competence to consent to medical and psychotherapeutic treatment Candida C. Peterson and Michael Siegal.

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