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The essential difference : male and female brains and the truth about autism / Simon Baron-Cohen.
- Baron-Cohen, Simon
- Date:
- 2004
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
New York : Basic Books, 2004.
Physical description
xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-264) and index.
Contents
The male and female brain -- Boy meets girl -- What is empathizing? -- The female brain as empathizer : the evidence -- What is systemizing? -- The male brain as systemizer : the evidence -- Culture -- Biology -- Evolution of the male and female brain -- Autism : the extreme male brain -- A professor of mathematics -- The extreme female brain : back to the future.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionBF692.2 2004B37eOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 046500556X
- 0738208442