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Understanding Autism : Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.