LEADER 03138nam 2200517Ka 450 001 9910831842203321 005 20240912105410.8 010 $a9781000335026 010 $a100033502X 035 $a(CKB)4950000000290133 035 $a(BIP)077373542 035 $a(ODN)ODN0005727351 035 $a(ScCtBLL)823c3e17-749a-407d-92da-ff81f32f2b13 035 $a(OCoLC)1230563588 035 $a(EXLCZ)994950000000290133 100 $a20221027d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe rise of autism $eRisk and resistance in the age of diagnosis. /$fGinny Russell 210 $d2020 215 $a1 online resource 330 $aThe Open Access version of this book, available at http://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. 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aMedical$2OverDrive 606 $aPsychology$2OverDrive 610 $aAutism Spectrum Disorders 610 $aSocial Psychology 610 $aSociology 610 $aHealth Risk Assessment 610 $aPsychology 610 $aSocial Science 610 $aMedical 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aMedical. 615 7$aPsychology. 686 $aMED037000$aPSY022020$aPSY031000$2bisacsh 700 $aRussell$b Ginny$01772546 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831842203321 996 $aThe rise of autism$94288703 997 $aUNINA