Re-Thinking Autism: Diagnosis, Identity and Equality

by Kim Davies

Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century.

Arguing that autism can only be understood through examining 'it' as a socially or culturally produced phenomenon, the authors offer a critique of the medical model that has produced a perpetually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849055815
• ISBN13: 9781849055819
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.7"