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ERIC Number: EJ601293
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Importance of Typologies for Science and Service in Mental Retardation.
Fidler, Deborah J.; Hodapp, Robert M.
Mental Retardation, v36 n6 p489-95 Dec 1998
This commentary on a previous article that described the use of topological thinking in the field of mental retardation discusses appropriate scientific uses of typologies, what categories are and how they are used in social and biomedical sciences, and the importance of typologies for scientific and practical progress. (Contains extensive references.) (CR)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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