Understanding Autism : Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder

Understanding Autism : Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder / Chloe Silverman.

"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 c...

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Main Author: Silverman, Chloe (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Autism in children.
Parents of autistic children.
Autistic children > Family relationships.
Autism in children > Treatment.
Children.
Parent and child.
Physician and patient.
children (people by age group)
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Physician and patient
Parent and child
Children
Autism in children
Autism in children > Treatment
Autistic children > Family relationships
Parents of autistic children
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Love as an analytic tool
  • Research programs, "autistic disturbances," and human difference
  • Love is not enough: Bruno Bettelheim, infantile autism, and psychoanalytic childhoods
  • Expert amateurs: raising and treating children with autism
  • Interlude: Parents speak: the art of love and the ethics of care
  • Brains, pedigrees, and promises: lessons from the politics of autism genetics
  • Desperate and rational: parents and professionals in autism research
  • Pandora's box: immunizations, parental obligations, and toxic facts
  • Conclusion: What the world needs now: learning about and acting on autism research.

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