Author

Publication

2010 - Polity, Cambridge, UK, England

Language

English

Word Count

78,000 words, Guess

Page Count

312 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveisbn_9780745644004
  • ISBN-10074564399X
  • ISBN-100745644007
  • ISBN-139780745643991
  • ISBN-139780745644004
and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2012405226
  • OCLC Control Number432990971
  • Better World Books9780745644004
  • Better World Books9780745643991
  • Open LibraryOL25325667M

Classifications

  • LCCRJ506.A9 A97 2010
  • LCCRJ506.A9
  • LCCRJ506.A9 A98 2010

Description

"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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Other Editions

  • The autism matrix: the social origins of the autism epidemicPolity2010-01-01

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