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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Bonnie (Autor)
Otros Autores: Waddington, Keir, Professor (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Social histories of medicine.
Temas:
1900-1999
Autism > Great Britain > History.
Child development.
Autistic children > Great Britain.
Autism in children > Great Britain > History.
Child development > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Autistic Disorder
Child Development
Autisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Enfants autistes > Grande-Bretagne.
Autisme infantile > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Enfants > Développement > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Enfants > Développement.
History Of Medicine.
Autism & Asperger's Syndrome.
United Kingdom, Great Britain.
MEDICAL > History.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Autism Spectrum Disorders.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Child development
Autistic children
Autism in children
Autism
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Britain.
Maudsley child psychotic clinic.
Social Psychiatry Research Unit.
autism.
childhood development.
epidemiological research.
global health crisis.
government entities.
metamorphosis.
psychological theory.
social impairment.
social services.
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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