The social construction of Asperger Syndrome: The pathologising of difference?

Disability and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 659-669

  Molloy, Harvey ^a   Vasil, Latika ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 0036775847     PISSN: 09687599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0968759022000010434     Document Type: Article

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