Understanding Autism : : Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder /

Understanding Autism : : Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder / / Chloe Silverman.

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Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic categor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Silverman, Chloe,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Love as an Analytic Tool
  • Part One
  • 1. Research Programs, "Autistic Disturbances," and Human Difference
  • 2. Love Is Not Enough: Bruno Bettelheim, Infantile Autism, and Psychoanalytic Childhoods
  • 3. Expert Amateurs: Raising and Treating Children with Autism
  • Interlude. Parents Speak: The Art of Love and the Ethics of Care
  • Part two
  • 4. Brains, Pedigrees, and Promises: Lessons from the Politics of Autism Genetics
  • 5. Desperate and Rational: Parents and Professionals in Autism Research
  • 6. Pandora's Box: Immunizations, Parental Obligations, and Toxic Facts
  • Conclusion. What the World Needs Now: Learning About and Acting on Autism Research
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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