Autism [[electronic resource] /] / Stuart Murray

• Autore: Murray Stuart
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (131 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.19685882; 616.85/882; 616.85882
• Soggetto topico: Autism; Autism spectrum disorders
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-112) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 6. Conclusion: After the FactPart II: Social, Cultural, and Political Histories; Chapter 7. Autism before Modern Medicine; Chapter 8. The Development of Child Psychiatry: Kanner and Asperger; Chapter 9. Psychoanalysis, BrunoBettelheim, Parents, and Blame; Chapter 10. Organizations and Associations; Chapter 11. The Rise of Neurodiversity:Demands, Advocacy, and Legislation; Chapter 12.Cultural Representations: Outsider and Insider Accounts; Chapter 13.Conclusion: History in the Making; Part III: Major Controversies; Chapter 14. A Lack of Consensus; Chapter 15.Causing Autism
• Sommario/riassunto: Autism is the first book on the condition that seeks to combine medical, historical and cultural approaches to an understanding of the condition. Its purpose is to present a rounded portrayal of the ways in which autism is currently represented in the world, It focuses on three broad areas: the facts of scientific research, including new ideas surrounding research into genetics and neuroscience, as well as the details of diagnosis and therapy; the history of the condition as it developed through psychiatric approaches to the rise of parent associations, neurodiversity and autism ad
• Titolo autorizzato: Autism
• ISBN: 9786613434883; 1-136-65219-1; 1-283-43488-1; 0-203-80599-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457808403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge series integrating science and culture.