The metamorphosis of autism : a history of child development in Britain

The metamorphosis of autism a history of child development in Britain

What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of the 'neurodiversity' movement, and growing autism journalism, have recently fuelled autism's fame and controversy. The metamorphosis of autism is the first book to explain our fascination with autism by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Manchester University Press, publisher (publisher)
Otros Autores: Evans, Bonnie, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, England: Manchester University Press 2017
2017
Colección:Social histories of medicine.
Materias:
Autism > Great Britain > History.
Autistic children > Great Britain.
Autism in children > Great Britain > History.
Child development > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
childhood development
children's rights
clinic
child psychology
autism
neurodiversity
hospital
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: perceiving, describing and modelling child development
  • part I. The first autism: the observation and description of child development before 1959
  • 1. The first autism
  • 2. The first autism controversies
  • 3. Inside the Maudsley Child Psychotic Clinic in the 1950s
  • part II. How autism became autism
  • 4. The transformation of social life and the transformation of autism in the 1960s
  • 5. How do you measure a social impairment?
  • 6. Epidemiology, epidemics and autism as a global health crisis
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations for Archives and Government Acts
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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