Lay Conceptions of Autism: Parents' Explanatory Models

Medical Anthropology

Volumn 16, Issue 1-4, 1994, Pages 99-118

  Gray, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

autism; explanatory models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951390001     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.1994.9966111     Document Type: Article

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