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Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
Chloe Silverman
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Description for Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
Hardback. Tracks developments in autism theory and practice over the years. This title shows how an understanding of autism has been constituted and stabilized through vital efforts of schools, gene banks, professional associations, government committees, parent networks, and treatment conferences. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: MJNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 630.
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 category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion--specifically, of parental love--in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism. Chloe Silverman tracks developments in autism theory and practice over the past half-century and shows how an understanding of autism has been constituted and stabilized through vital efforts of schools, gene banks, professional associations, government committees, ... Read more
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 category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion--specifically, of parental love--in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism. Chloe Silverman tracks developments in autism theory and practice over the past half-century and shows how an understanding of autism has been constituted and stabilized through vital efforts of schools, gene banks, professional associations, government committees, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691150468
SKU
V9780691150468
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Ref
99-1
About Chloe Silverman
Chloe Silverman is an associate professor in the department of English at Pennsylvania State University.
Reviews for Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
"Understanding Autism ... is the most sensitive account by an academic historian."
Steven Shapin, New Yorker "Understanding Autism is the most sensitive account by an academic historian."
Steven Shapin, The New Yorker "For Chloe Silverman, 'understanding autism' means understanding how autism has become a diagnostic category and why for some people, in autism advocacy groups for example, it isn't a pathology at ... Read more
Steven Shapin, New Yorker "Understanding Autism is the most sensitive account by an academic historian."
Steven Shapin, The New Yorker "For Chloe Silverman, 'understanding autism' means understanding how autism has become a diagnostic category and why for some people, in autism advocacy groups for example, it isn't a pathology at ... Read more