Autism : a social and medical history / Mitzi Waltz.
2023
RJ506.A9
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Title
Autism : a social and medical history / Mitzi Waltz.
Author
Waltz, Mitzi, author.
Edition
2nd ed.
ISBN
9783031310157 (electronic bk.)
3031310152 (electronic bk.)
9783031310140
3031310144
3031310152 (electronic bk.)
9783031310140
3031310144
Published
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-31015-7 doi
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RJ506.A9
Dewey Decimal Classification
618.92/85882
Summary
This expanded second edition of Mitzi Waltzs Autism: A Social and Medical History offers an in-depth examination of how the condition was perceived before it became a separate area of investigation, and how autism has been conceptualised and treated since. As well as strengthening the existing text, Waltz has added material on a number of topics that have received increased attention since the first edition, including the rise of the anti-vaccination movement, the shift towards genetic and genomic research, and the progress of the autism self-advocacy movement. The author examines these issues through the perspective of what they mean for autistic people, clinicians and society, and looks at the challenges still faced by autistic people. Waltz also looks at the increased autism diagnosis among girls and women, and how autism has been represented in traditional media and social media. The book includes information from interviews with key researchers, parents of autistic children and people with autism.
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Previous edition: 2013.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
1: A Nameless Difference
2: Autism Before and After the Enlightenment
3: Workhouses, Asylums, and the Rise of Behavioural Sciences
4: The Social Construction of Autism
5: From 'Pathological Motherhood' to Refrigerator Mothers
6: Bedlam, Behaviourism and Beyond
7: Parent Blaming, Parent Power, and the Start of Real Research
8: Self-advocacy and the Rise of the Medical Model Footnotes References Index.
2: Autism Before and After the Enlightenment
3: Workhouses, Asylums, and the Rise of Behavioural Sciences
4: The Social Construction of Autism
5: From 'Pathological Motherhood' to Refrigerator Mothers
6: Bedlam, Behaviourism and Beyond
7: Parent Blaming, Parent Power, and the Start of Real Research
8: Self-advocacy and the Rise of the Medical Model Footnotes References Index.