Autism /
"Autism is the first book on the condition that seeks to combine medical, historical and cultural approaches to an understanding of the condition. Its purpose is to present a rounded portrayal of the ways in which autism is currently represented in the world, It focuses on three broad areas: th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781136652196 1136652191 9780203805992 0203805992 1283434881 9781283434881 9781136652189 1136652183 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- What we know ... or don't
- The body, the brain, and the person: biology, neurology, and self
- The detail of diagnosis
- Intervention and treatment: metaphors, objects, and subjects
- The gender question and the nature of being
- Conclusion: after the fact
- Autism before modern medicine
- The development of child psychiatry: Kanner and Asperger
- Psychoanalysis, Bruno Bettelheim, parents, and blame
- Organizations and association
- The rise of neurodiversity: demands, advocacy, and legislation
- Cultural representations: outsider and insider accounts
- Conclusion: history in the making
- A lack of consensus
- Causing autism
- Autism and the idea of the cure
- Conclusion: autism and the human, again.