02999nam 2200421 450 991047683520332120221228142800.00-429-28591-4(CKB)4100000011677201(NjHacI)994100000011677201(EXLCZ)99410000001167720120221228h20202021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe rise of autism risk and resistance in the age of diagnosis /Ginny RussellLondon :Routledge,2020.©20211 online resource (202 pages) illustrationsRoutledge studies in the sociology of health and illnessIncludes index.0-367-25081-0 The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429285912, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This innovative book addresses the question of why increasing numbers of people are being diagnosed with autism since the 1990s. Providing an engaging account of competing and widely debated explanations, it investigates how these have led to differing interpretations of the same data. Crucially, the author argues that the increased use of autism diagnosis is due to medicalisation across the life course, whilst holding open the possibility that the rise may also be partly accounted for by modern-day environmental exposures, again, across the life course. A further focus of the book is not on whether autism itself is valid as a diagnostic category, but whether and how it is useful as a diagnostic category, and how the utility of the diagnosis has contributed to the rise. This serves to move beyond the question of whether diagnoses are 'real' or social constructions, and instead asks: who do diagnoses serve to benefit, and at what cost do they come? The book will appeal to clinicians and health professionals, as well as medical researchers, who are interested in a review of the data which demonstrates the rising use of autism as a diagnosis, and an analysis of the reasons why this has occurred. Providing theory through which to interpret the expanding application of the diagnosis and the broadening of autism as a concept, it will also be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, philosophy, psychiatry, psychology, social work, disability studies and childhood studies.Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness.AutismDiagnosisAutismEnvironmental aspectsAutismDiagnosis.AutismEnvironmental aspects.616.85882075Russell Ginny1965-1271850NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910476835203321The rise of autism2996061UNINA