@article{437726,
      recid = {437726},
      author = {Eyal, Gil.},
      title = {The autism matrix : the social origins of the autism  epidemic /},
      publisher = {Polity,},
      address = {Cambridge, UK ;},
      pages = {viii, 312 p. :},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {"The authors argue that the recent rise in autism should  be understood as an 'aftershock' of the real earthquake,  which was the deinstitutionalization of mental retardation  in the mid-1970s. This entailed a radical transformation  not only of the institutional matrix for dealing with  developmental disorders of childhood, but also of the  cultural lens through which we view them. It opened up a  space for viewing and treating childhood disorders as  neither mental illness nor mental retardation, neither  curable nor incurable, but somewhere in-between"--From  publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437726},
}