TABLE OF CONTENTS
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DEDICATION
- ABSTRACT
- Chapter 1
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Introduction
- Overview
- Rationale
- Statement of the Problem
- Objectives of the Study
- Introduction�s Summary
- Chapter 2
- Review of the Literature
- Overview
- Terminology and Searching
- Not Autism Literature, But Sources About Autism Cause Literature
- Background on Autism Causes
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Psychological Basis
- Neurobiological Basis
- Genetic Basis
- Environmental Basis
- Mixed Basis
- Conclusions Drawn from the Literature Review
- Chapter 3
- Methods
- Overview
- Design of the Study
- Selection of the Sample
- Procedures
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Data Collection
- Data Analysis
- Limitations of the Study
- Sampling Limitations and Their Solutions
- Methodological Limitations and Their Corrections
- Methods Summary
- Chapter 4
- Results
- Overview
- Quantitative Results
- Overall Statistics
- By Decade
- 1943 to 1956
- 1957 to 1966
- 1967 to 1976
- 1977 to 1986
- 1987 to 1996
- By Country
- Variance of Cause by Country
- Variance of Cause Within Certain Countries
- By Source
- By Journal
- Variance of Causation by Journal
- Non-Journal Sources
- By Database or Bibliography
- By Author
- Do the Same Authors Stay with the Same Causes?
- Other Findings
- Childhood Autism
- Direct Conflicts in the Literature
- Database Peculiarities
- Summary of Results
- Chapter 5
- Discussion and Implications
- Overview
- General Discussion of Results
- Bradford�s Law of Scattering
- Three Zones
- The Formula
- Goffman�s Theory
- Bandwagon Appeal
- Epidemic Theory
- Lotka�s Law
- Does Multi-directional Approach of Autism Causation Research Imply No Clear Consensus?
- Implications
- Implications for Hypothesis
- Geographical Issues
- Implications for Further Research
- Summary of Discussion and Implications
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF FIGURES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- VITA
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