The Metamorphosis of Autism
A History of Child Development in Britain
Seiten
2017
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-9592-4 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-9592-4 (ISBN)
This is the first detailed exploration of the history of autism in the UK. Drawing from extensive and highly original archival research as well as investigations of published literature it describes the political, social and institutional background which made the study and increased diagnosis of autism possible. -- .
What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of the 'neurodiversity' movement, and growing autism journalism, have recently fuelled autism's fame and controversy. The metamorphosis of autism is the first book to explain our current fascination with autism by linking it to a longer history of childhood development. Drawing from a staggering array of primary sources, Bonnie Evans traces autism back to its origins in the early twentieth century and explains why the idea of autism has always been controversial and why it experienced a 'metamorphosis' in the 1960s and 1970s.
Evans takes the reader on a journey of discovery from the ill-managed wards of 'mental deficiency' hospitals, to high-powered debates in the houses of parliament, and beyond. The book will appeal to a wide market of scholars and others interested in autism.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
What is autism and where has it come from? Increased diagnostic rates, the rise of the 'neurodiversity' movement, and growing autism journalism, have recently fuelled autism's fame and controversy. The metamorphosis of autism is the first book to explain our current fascination with autism by linking it to a longer history of childhood development. Drawing from a staggering array of primary sources, Bonnie Evans traces autism back to its origins in the early twentieth century and explains why the idea of autism has always been controversial and why it experienced a 'metamorphosis' in the 1960s and 1970s.
Evans takes the reader on a journey of discovery from the ill-managed wards of 'mental deficiency' hospitals, to high-powered debates in the houses of parliament, and beyond. The book will appeal to a wide market of scholars and others interested in autism.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
Bonnie Evans is Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at Queen Mary, University of London -- .
Introduction: Perceiving, describing and modelling child development
Part I: The first autism: The observation and description of child development before 1959
1: The first autism
2: The first autism controversies
3: Inside the Maudsley Child Psychotic Clinic in the 1950s
Part II: How autism became autism
4: The transformation of social life and the transformation of autism in the 1960s
5: How do you measure a social impairment?
6: Epidemiology, epidemics and autism as a global health crisis
Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.02.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social Histories of Medicine |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 black & white illustrations, 7 tables |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 739 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-9592-1 / 0719095921 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-9592-4 / 9780719095924 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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