Autism
Subtitle: a social and medical history
By: Mitzi Waltz, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230527515
Subjects: Autism in children; History; Autism; Research; Social psychiatry; People with mental disabilities; Institutional care; Mental health services
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A nameless difference; title: Autism before and after the enlightenment; title: Workhouses, asylums, and the rise of behavioural sciences; title: The social construction of autism; title: From 'pathological motherhood' to refrigerator mothers; title: Bedlam, behaviourism and beyond; title: Parent blaming, parent power, and the start of real research; title: Self-advocacy and the rise of the medical model.