The autism matrix : the social origins of the autism epidemic / Gil Eyal ... [et al.].
Eyal, Gil.
2010
RJ506.A9 A97 2010 (Mapit)
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The autism matrix : the social origins of the autism epidemic / Gil Eyal ... [et al.].
ISBN
9780745643991
074564399X
9780745644004 (pbk.)
0745644007 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010.
Language
English
Description
viii, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
RJ506.A9 A97 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
618.9285882
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Eyal, Gil.
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Introduction: the autism matrix
The puzzle of variation in autism rates
The feebleminded
The surveillance of childhood
Deinstitutionalization
"An existence as close to the normal as possible": normalization
Childhood schizophrenia
The rise of the therapies
Bernard Rimland and the formation of NSAC
The atypical children
Asperger and neurodiversity
The space of autism therapies and the making and remaking of the spectrum
Conclusion.

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