1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910734851103321

Autore

Waltz Mitzi

Titolo

Autism : A Social and Medical History / / by Mitzi Waltz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-31015-2

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages)

Disciplina

618.92/85882

Soggetti

Sociology

Clinical psychology

Psychology

Social sciences—History

Medicine—History

Social medicine

Psychology, Pathological

Clinical Psychology

History of Psychology

History of Medicine

Medical Sociology

Psychopathology

Autisme

Història de la psicologia

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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 and the Rise of the Medical Model Footnotes References Index.



Sommario/riassunto

This expanded second edition of Mitzi Waltz’s Autism: A Social and Medical History offers an in-depth examination of how the condition was perceived before it became a separate area of investigation, and how autism has been conceptualised and treated since. As well as strengthening the existing text, Waltz has added material on a number of topics that have received increased attention since the first edition, including the rise of the anti-vaccination movement, the shift towards genetic and genomic research, and the progress of the autism self-advocacy movement. The author examines these issues through the perspective of what they mean for autistic people, clinicians and society, and looks at the challenges still faced by autistic people. Waltz also looks at the increased autism diagnosis among girls and women, and how autism has been represented in traditional media and social media. The book includes information from interviews with key researchers, parents of autistic children and people with autism.