The autism matrix : the social origins of the autism epidemic /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2010.
Description:viii, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Autism in children.
Autism in children -- Diagnosis.
Autism in children -- Treatment.
Autistic children -- Care.
Autistic children -- Services for.
Autistic children -- Care -- History.
Autistic children -- Services for -- History.
Autistic Disorder -- history.
Deinstitutionalization -- history.
Autism in children.
Autism in children -- Diagnosis.
Autism in children -- Treatment.
Autistic children -- Care.
Autistic children -- Services for.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8117098
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Other authors / contributors:Eyal, Gil.
ISBN:9780745643991 (hbk.)
074564399X (hbk.)
9780745644004 (pbk.)
0745644007 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-306) and index.
Summary:"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-1970s. 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"--From publisher description.

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