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viii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 11.The Space of Autism Therapies and the Making and Remaking of the Spectrum -- The return of Rimland -- The agonistic network -- Blurring the boundary between medicine and alternative medicine -- The space of autism therapies -- Conclusion |
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Contents note continued: Behavior modification and normalization -- 6.Childhood Schizophrenia -- 7.The Rise of the Therapies -- Autism therapies in the 1950s and 1960s -- Working on the child's brain -- Inculcating habits and building skills -- Blurring the boundary between expert and layman -- The space between fields -- 8.Bernard Rimland and the Formation of NSAC -- The parent-activist-therapist-researcher as a new type of expert -- The problem of credibility -- Schopler and the new economy of blame and worth -- Autism parenting as a vocation -- The implications of behavioral therapy -- Conclusion -- 9.The Atypical Children -- The struggle over inclusion in the Developmental Disabilities Act -- Autism as concurrent with mental retardation -- Looping and the transformation of autism -- 10.Asperger and Neurodiversity -- The riddle of simultaneous discovery dissolved -- "Personality trait" vs. "psychotic process" -- Twins reunited -- Loops of self-advocacy -- |
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Machine generated contents note: Why focus on therapies? -- The genetics of autism -- Diagnostic change -- Between mental illness and mental retardation -- 1.The Puzzle of Variation in Autism Rates -- Diagnostic substitution -- Supply-side and demand-side explanations for diagnostic substitution -- Deinstitutionalization as key to explaining diagnostic substitution -- Deinstitutionalization and the variation in autism rates -- 2.The Feebleminded -- 3.The Surveillance of Childhood -- The unification of mental deficiency and mental hygiene under child psychiatry -- The role of the middle-class family -- The institutionalization of children and the comprehensive surveillance system -- 4.Deinstitutionalization -- A new look at the deinstitutionalization of the retarded -- THE AUTISM MATRIX -- The middle-class family and the "valorization of retarded existence" -- 5."An existence as close to the normal as possible": Normalization -- Normalization as therapeutic practice -- |
| Summary |
"The Autism Matrix is an exemplary exercise in historically informed medical anthropology and sociology. This richly argued, engaging, and well-researched book begins with the basic question of why autism diagnoses have increased in recent years and then offers a wealth of cascading implications. The authors succeed in showing that the simplistic question of 'epidemic or not?' is unproductive in comparison to the more intellectually fruitful question of how institutional matrices identify, name, count, and treat neuropsychiatric difference."-Roy Richard Grinker, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, The George Washington University, and author of Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism -- |
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Autism, rare and little publicized twenty years ago, is now constantly in the news and is absorbing ever larger sums of public funding and concern. It has changed school classrooms and perhaps the very nature of childhood. This book is the best available sociological analysis of how this happened, linking recent events to those early in the twentieth century. It tells of the formidable labor of autism activists, their dreams and schisms, with generosity and insight. Institutions, the ideals of the family and its management, and child minding, all play their role. This is a reflective analysis of a pervasive event of our times, replacing clichTs with new ideas."-Ian Hacking, CollFge de France -- |
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But can it really be so simple? This major new book offers a very different interpretation. The authors argue that the recent rise in autism should be understood as an "aftershock" of the real earthquake, which was the deinstitutionalization of mental retardation in the mid-1970's. This entailed a radical transformation not only of the institutional matrix for dealing with developmental disorders of childhood, but also of the cultural lens through which we view them. It opened up a space for viewing and treating childhood disorders as neither mental illness nor mental retardation, neither curable nor incurable, but somewhere in-between. -- |
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Combining a historical narrative with international comparison, The Autism Matrix offers a fresh and powerful analysis of a condition that affects many parents and children today. --Book Jacket |
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Today autism has become highly visible. Once you begin to look for i1 you realize it is everywhere. Why? We all know the answer รป or think we do: there is an autism epidemic. And if it is an epidemic, then we know what must be done: lots of money must be thrown at it, detection centers must be established and explanations sought, so that the number of new cases can be brought down and the epidemic brought under control. -- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Autism in children -- Diagnosis.
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Autism in children -- Treatment.
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Autism in children.
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Autistic children -- Care -- History.
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Autistic children -- Care.
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Autistic children -- Services for -- History.
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Autistic children -- Services for.
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Autistic Disorder.
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| Author |
Eyal, Gil.
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| LC no. |
2012405226 |
| ISBN |
074564399X (hbk.) |
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0745644007 (paperback) |
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9780745643991 (hbk.) |
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9780745644004 (paperback) |
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