James K. Skipper, Jr., Robert C. Leonard, Children, Stress, and Hospitalization: A Field Experiment, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 9, No. 4, Special Issue on Patients and Illness (Dec., 1968), pp. 275-287
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