Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder

by Chloe Silverman

Book Overview

How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autism

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069115046X
• ISBN13: 9780691150468
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"