{pdf} Children’s understanding of biology and health Michael Siegal; Candida D Peterson

This book provides the first state-of-the-art examination of children’s understanding of biology and health. Authors based in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia review and evaluate children’s understanding of birth, life and death, their knowledge of contamination and contagion as well as processes related to food, digestion, and pain. The chapters tightly focus on the connection between research and practice in examining the implications for communication about diseases such as HIV and for children’s medical and therapeutic decision-making
Becoming mindful of biology and health : an introduction / Michael Siegal and Candida C. Peterson — Children’s understanding of mind-body relationships / Kayoko Inagaki and Giyoo Hatano — How a naive theory of biology is acquired / Ken Springer — Constructing a coherent theory : children’s biological understanding of life and death / Virginia Slaughter, Raquel Jaakkola, and Susan Carey — What young children’s understanding of contamination and contagion tells us about their concepts of illness / Charles W. Kalish — Children and pain / John E. Taplin … [et al.] — Children and food / Leann Birch, Jennifer Fisher, and Karen Grimm-Thomas — Ethics of emaciation : moral connotations of body, self, and diet / Carol J. Nemeroff and Carolyn J. Cavanaugh — Considering children’s folkbiology in health education / Terry Kit-Fong Au, Laura F. Romo, and Jennifer E. Dewitt — Young children’s understanding of the physician’s role and the medical hearsay exception / Melody R. Herbst … [et al.] — Cognitive development and the competence to consent to medical and psychotherapeutic treatment / Candida C. Peterson and Michael Siegal