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Understanding autism: parents, doctors, and the history of a disorder

2012 Princeton University Press ;ISBN: 0691159688 ;ISBN: 9780691159683 ;ISBN: 9780691150468 ;ISBN: 069115046X ;ISBN: 1400840392 ;ISBN: 9781400840397 ;EISBN: 1400840392 ;EISBN: 9781400840397 ;DOI: 10.1515/9781400840397 ;OCLC: 757754796 ;LCCallNum: RC553.A88

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  • Title:
    Understanding autism: parents, doctors, and the history of a disorder
  • Author: Silverman, Chloe
  • Subjects: Anthropology ; Autism in children ; Autism Spectrum Disorders ; Autistic children ; Family relationships ; Parents of autistic children ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Psychopathology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; treatment
  • Description: 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.
  • Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: 353
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0691159688
    ISBN: 9780691159683
    ISBN: 9780691150468
    ISBN: 069115046X
    ISBN: 1400840392
    ISBN: 9781400840397
    EISBN: 1400840392
    EISBN: 9781400840397
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400840397
    OCLC: 757754796
    LCCallNum: RC553.A88
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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