The Interactional Production of a Clinical Fact in a Case of Autism

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-78

  Turowetz, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Conversation analysis; Diagnosis; Ethnomethodology; Interaction; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925482441     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-014-9294-8     Document Type: Article

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