Autism [electronic resource] : A Social and Medical History /
Waltz, M.author.
This book contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often troubling effects of representations and social trends. Exploring the individuals and events in the history of this condition, Waltz blends research and personal perspectives to examine social narratives of normalcy, disability and difference.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface: Autism, and How We Got Here; Acknowledgements; 1 A Nameless Difference; 2 Autism before and after the Enlightenment; 3 Workhouses, Asylums, and the Rise of Behavioural Sciences; 4 The Social Construction of Autism; 5 From 'Pathological Motherhood' to Refrigerator Mothers; 6 Bedlam, Behaviourism, and Beyond; 7 Parent Blaming, Parent Power, and the Start of Real Research; 8 Self-Advocacy vs. the Rise of the Medical Model; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often troubling effects of representations and social trends. Exploring the individuals and events in the history of this condition, Waltz blends research and personal perspectives to examine social narratives of normalcy, disability and difference.
Psychology, clinical.
Psychology
Medicine.
Social medicine.
Psychology, Pathological.
Sociology, general.
Clinical Psychology.
History of Psychology.
History of Medicine.
Medical Sociology.
Psychopathology.