Mindblindness: Autism, writing, and the problem of empathy

Literature and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-23

  Jurecic, Ann ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; EMPATHY; HUMAN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WRITING;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; EMPATHY; HUMANS; NARRATION; WRITING;

EID: 35748934040     PISSN: 02789671     EISSN: 10806571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lm.2006.0021     Document Type: Review

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