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Constructing Autism: Unravelling the 'Truth' and Understanding the Social

By Majia Holmer Nadesan

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
ISBN
0415321808, 0415321816, 9780415321815
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29011852 bytes)
Pages
\257
Time added
2021-04-26 04:28:07

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Cover Constructing Autism: Unravelling the 'truth' and understanding the social Copyright Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Constructing autism: A dialectic of biology and culture, nature and mind Diagnostic autism: classical readings and contemporary nosologies Disease and representation Constructing autism in the twentieth century 3 Psychiatric niche conditions Setting the stage: the history of madness Normality and pathology: dividing nineteenth-century populations Children and madness 4 The history of childhood: Ontologies, institutional divisions, child saving and child guidance The emergence of the child: constituting childhood, formalizing education Educating children, dividing children, sequestering children Child guidance, child psychiatry, and new categories of childhood pathology Identifying niche conditions 5 Psychological discourses construct autism The rise of psychoanalysis 1940–1960: the Zeitgeist of the times Psychoanalysis and autism in English-speaking countries: ego psychology and the mother–infant relationship The rise of the cognitive paradigm: 1970–2004 Autism and cognitive psychology Cognitive constructions: problematic assumptions and alien models Conclusions on psychological constructions of autism: looking back at the twentieth century 6 Biogenetic approaches construct autism Biological psychiatry and geneticization: the cultural Zeitgeist Autism: the search for causal agents Concluding thoughts on the search for causal agents 7 The dialectics of autism: Theorizing autism, performing autism, remediating autism, and resisting autism Theorizing disease/disablement: autism as socially constructed Identifying autism, treating autism, experiencing autism Identity politics and autism advocacy Concluding thoughts: autism as disease/disablement, difference, and genius 8 Directions in the ontology of personhood: the new genetics, genomics, and opportunities for somatic subjects References Index

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