Focuses on three major questions about children's understanding of the causes of illness: (1) developmental trends in understanding causes of illness; (2) children's use of the notion of immanent justice to explain illness and accident; and (3) the relationship between the extent of knowledge about the physical causes of illness and the use of…

In a year-long participant observation study of remediative action following child injury, 61 children ages 8 and 9 and their mothers wrote records and, in biweekly interviews, reported on more than 1,000 minor injuries. Found that remediative action was related to type of child activity and to mother's affect and beliefs. (MDM)