The trouble with brain imaging: Hope, uncertainty and ambivalence in the neuroscience of autism

BioSocieties

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 241-261

  Fitzgerald, Des ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ambivalence; autism; expectations; hope; neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907331800     PISSN: 17458552     EISSN: 17458560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2014.15     Document Type: Article

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