TY  - BOOK
AU  - Silverman,Chloe
TI  - Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder 
SN  - 9781400840397
AV  - RC553.A88 S55 2012eb
U1  - 618.92/85882 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Autism in children
KW  - Parents of autistic children
KW  - Autistic children
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Children
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Physician and patient
KW  - Autistic Disorder
KW  - history
KW  - Child
KW  - Disabled Children
KW  - psychology
KW  - Parent-Child Relations
KW  - Physician-Patient Relations
KW  - Autisme infantile
KW  - Parents d'enfants autistes
KW  - Enfants autistes
KW  - Relations familiales
KW  - Traitement
KW  - Enfants
KW  - Parents et enfants
KW  - Relations médecin-patient
KW  - children (people by age group)
KW  - aat
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Infectious Diseases
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Psychopathology
KW  - Autism Spectrum Disorders
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327) and index; Introduction: Love as an analytic tool -- Research programs, "autistic disturbances," and human difference -- Love is not enough: Bruno Bettelheim, infantile autism, and psychoanalytic childhoods -- Expert amateurs: raising and treating children with autism -- Interlude: Parents speak: the art of love and the ethics of care -- Brains, pedigrees, and promises: lessons from the politics of autism genetics -- Desperate and rational: parents and professionals in autism research -- Pandora's box: immunizations, parental obligations, and toxic facts -- Conclusion: What the world needs now: learning about and acting on autism research
N2  - "Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of the expanding diagnostic category of this contested illness, takes a close look at the role of emotion--specifically, of parental love--in the intense and passionate work of biomedical communities investigating autism. Chloe Silverman tracks developments in autism theory and practice over the past half-century and shows how an understanding of autism has been constituted and stabilized through vital efforts of schools, gene banks, professional associations, government committees, parent networks, and treatment conferences. She examines the love and labor of parents, who play a role in developing--in conjunction with medical experts--new forms of treatment and therapy for their children. While biomedical knowledge is dispersed through an emotionally neutral, technical language that separates experts from laypeople, parental advocacy and activism call these distinctions into question. Silverman reveals how parental care has been a constant driver in the volatile field of autism research and treatment, and has served as an inspiration for scientific change"--Provided by publisher
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